it got cut a little short here. the minstrel of gondor's song actually lasts nine hours and forty-three minutes (and includes 197 doom-gloom/gloom-doom rhymes). "la la la, And then... fa la la, And then...
I remember in elementary school, we were in the gymnasium, and we had a choice between watching this movie, or watching My Little Pony. I was one of the few who raised my hand for this. Just shows I knew what was good at an early age while the others were being brainwashed with rainbows and crap.
But can someone PLEASE tell me what was the point of Merry and Pippin in this version of the movie. I mean, Frodo and Sam go to destroy the Ring, NOT TELLING ANYBODY so why'd the other two Hobbits come along? And why did Aragorn call Gandalf "wizard", I thought he knew Gandalf well. I understand simplification, but seriously, the Minas Tirith subplot was boring.
LMAO. What the fuck minstrel, they wanted to hear about how he lost his finger.... not the Bilbo's entire adventure.... Would've been so much easier to just say it was bitten off by Gollum ffs.
Frodo looks like he's ready to slit his wrists. Maybe Bilbo should give him a day or two to work through his traumatic experiences before giving him crap about his ring.
Peter Jackson and his cast should do a live-action recreation of this with the same script, same blocking, same dialouge...and same SONGS. I would pay to see that.
When I saw a picture Glenn Yarbrough I was so disappointed to see that he didn't look a thing like the minstrel of Gondor, idk I guess as a kid I always assumed they drew the minstrel as a caricature of him or something.
@SonicingAndEntering I think they had to do that because some untalented people made the Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers animation ("The Lord of the Rings" 1978) so they had to piece things together like this - the talented people made The Hobbit and this
Just to be clear I meant as evil more so as anything as like someone put it better ''He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.'' But no problem I just have trouble in saying things the way I meant
Yes very true. I try not to interpret his works and link them to anything directly. He hated allegory's yet I am sure things in his life influenced his works such as his religion and WWI as well as WW2. However they definitely weren't anything as direct as the C.S Lewis.
One of the things I dislike about the new movies are they didn't capture the magic feel of tolkien that these films did. Yes they are cheesy but its just a low budget TV cartoon. A great tolkien tribute!
@BANZITOMMY To me the three cartoon film versions was better throw and throw in adaptions but then again I have known these sense I was little and read the J.R.R Tolkien books alot. Which to me the books was meant as both light hearted yet serious at the same time.
Funny fact theres still religious debates about the book for all the myths and stuff thrown in along with the good Nature of the book,fact was Tolkien was religious and based the story in away to help teach morels.
I watched these just recently in the past two years or so. At first I thought they were very silly but after viewing the newer films and thinking about it more I realize that they are better adaptions.
@BANZITOMMY Yes its quite odd you would think the newer versions with newer tech would be but they apparently put less effort into it,its hard to explain that well I just see that Rankin/Base crew wanted to do the best possible in adaptions from books to movies. I personally like how they blended live action in there versions,especially those zombie like slaves of Sauron's seeing as the effects used to make them blend in the film make them feel creepier
I enjoy them but I think they could have been better. I thought some of the animation was a bit hard to follow and some of the battles and such were a little boring. Sam also bothers me a bit. I did enjoy the script and voice acting. Some of the animation was done quite well too. John Hurt as Aragorn was fantastic :D
@bladevstwilight1 do you know how long it took to make all the films not to mention they had to live in new Zealand for the whole time and how much work was put into ligthing, effects, acting, etc. and you say it took less effort then 1 person animating and maybe 20 other people doing sounds and a couple of actors speaking lines ?
@roflrocketrofl I already had on other vids about 15 people claiming to be who your claiming to be and I'll say what I've said to them all,even if you are who you claim to be[which I doubt] it really holds no ground without solid proof in reliable sources. But the fact is its easy to film a movie with real actors rather then a animated one,yes I know all that fancy costume stuff costs alot and takes alot of time along with filming and such
@roflrocketrofl Not to forgot back when these animated films was made it wasn't as easy as that CGI one person crap,right theres a flaw in logic for you as Drawing by hand takes more time and effort onto a person to make the scenes as unlike real people the animated tech back then wasn't using the level of tech we have today. They used the best around back then and it wasn't just one animator the head guy behind the scenes is the 1 guy hes in essence a directer.
@roflrocketrofl Before I forget not all of it was drawn some of the stuff was done with back them fairly complicated tech now easy as heck if you would know what your doing
@BANZITOMMY He make it also because he seen it a good way for people who wasn't religious to get the morels of what he believed was shown best in religion,although it start as a bedtime/fairy tail he told to kids along with afew songs/poems he made thats in his books. He had at a point even had to start righting it on paper for he was changing bit,
Or was the fairy tale to book ideal the person who made wizard of ozs no matter the rest of the fact is true tho for sure.
@BANZITOMMY But he was a interesting man to make a story to teach morels and natures in such a way you could be drawn into a series of books for all ages,which it was first mean as a hole book but the place he wanted it made thought it was to big for that so he added abit to having a opening for the other books. Its even more intriguing that here afew years back a unpublished book he made was found and published
@BANZITOMMY Its kinda funny if you think about myths like hobbits,nomnes[sp?] and leprechauns are infact real for the genetic condition that makes people short as heck. Then others like ogres or goblins could be people with a genetic condition making them huge,then myths like werewolfs could be people with a genetic condition that makes there hole body covered in fur and face kinda looking like a wolf in facel figures. Therefore in every myth theres a grain of truth
@BANZITOMMY Heck another thing Tolkien had added myths of other cultures ether died out myths or not it seemed he added ones like the boat that bilbo left that was said to frodo Biblo would [if I recall right] live forever it was a mix of a old belief and a throw of region mixed in well in a sense kinda.
Sorry I ramble abit there my bad but atleast it was still kinda on the topic of the Tolkien books on them,sorry if I bothered you at all with the rambling
@BANZITOMMY I meant as evil more so as anything as like someone put it better ''He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.'' But no problem I just have trouble in saying things the way I meant
TRUE STORY: i was humming this tune while in the library and then a older man walked past me and sang "Frodo of the niiiine fingersss....and the ring of doooooom." needless to say my mind was blown.
@wayne62682 Truthfully back years and years ago there was for old folks that smoked a mix that had what was believed as a herbel cure for pain and other ailments that bothered the eldery,which is know known as a illegal drug. Which was said about the Indians and there peace pipe,albeit was mixed very little so it was safe snd not every tribe had illegal stuff like that. Though other trides had just pure 100/ tobacco they made from the tobacco plant
@wayne62682 Albeit all of the illegal drug in the mixs to be smoke back then was safely mixed to were it was to low to mess with the mind or sense. Aside from relieving pain and other ailment based fatige along with relieving stress or tension,says docs in the med field by how the amounts read for making the tobacco blends.
@golsonkp Truthfully back years and years ago there was for old folks that smoked a mix that had what was believed as a herbel cure for pain and other ailments that bothered the eldery. Albeit was mixed very little so it was safe all of the illegal drug in the mixs to be smoke back then was safely mixed to were it was to low to mess with the mind or sense. Aside from relieving pain and other ailment based fatige along with relieving stress or tension,
@golsonkp So says docs in the med field by how the amounts read for making the tobacco blends.
[there was a funny ''need to enter text in box amount ago reason it was funny it needed entered ginseng funny because the topic was about what was believed as herbal remedy's years and years ago
@kmgtex You do known Tolkien was Christan,right? He meant the One Ring as a sigh of what evil could do to people and what is said Satan can do to people in tricking them. The names was more or less just something he thought of is all
@bladevstwilight1 He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.
@Gernam12 Thats what I was trying to say but I can never think how to work a statement of mine the right,simple way. Its a a fact/trait of mine I hate for I tend to be misunderstood or it comes off making no sense.
@bladevstwilight1 actually this comment was supposed to bash Rowling for picking very similar names from the Rings trilogy. Sorry if it was taken wrong. Im a huge Tolkien fan, but i also am an HP fan. I just found some of the similarities interesting is all. : )
@kmgtex I meant as evil more so as anything as like someone put it better ''He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.'' But no problem I just have trouble in saying things the way I meant
I love this song. It brings back so many memories.... When Bilbo found that magic ring In Gollum's cave of gloom He never thought that it would turn into the Ring of Doom The dragon Smaug The spiders too The Goblins The Elven King They came to know the power of The Hobbit, and his Ring Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom It started with a Hobbit in Gollum's cave of gloom
@KylaCousland I did read the silmarillion and I agree it is a masterpiece, but like I said, Tolkien and Rowling cannot be compared. Their stories are so different.
Please do not compare Lord of the rings to Harry Potter. I love them both, in very different ways. Rowling can not in anyway compete with the mythology and history of Arda, but the HP series has something else. Let people enjoy either, stop comparing.
@stoffis772 ditto. I understand why people make the connection. they are similar. Tolkien's world is deeper, by a lot. but Harry Potter, its good too. Ironically, HP feels more like Aesop's fables, isolated in its own reality, leading up to an obvious moral (dont try to be immortal/live and die honorably), even though it is technically set in the 'real world' while Tolkien feels like a lost part of real history, even though its set in Middle-Earth.
WEEEEE!! Elrond with a beard! I've always loved that, it's so funny. Elves COULD grow beards, but the only one we know of was cirdan and he was old as dirt. But i love who voiced elrond though, he sounds like elrond should.
Despite negative comments, I think this song is petty clever song & a different take on the book if they made a hundred movie they all could be done differently.
People forget how many folky songs are actually IN THE GOD DAMN BOOKS....and how much song is integral to their mood.
Folky songs like this suit the story a lot better than any overproduced God-Chorus abusing Carmina Burana wannabe. I love Howard Shore, but.....he just wasn't the guy to score LOTR.
Admittedly it didn't do a good job of adapting the story in a way that was entirely understandable (I know my head hurt as a kid trying to understand what was going on.) However, there's some beautiful animation and songs, and the characterization of the hobbits themselves is some of the strongest I've seen, and the voice acting is awesome for the most part, if hammy in places. All in all, it's more than watchable, it's a good film.
I grew up with this, and to be honest, I prefer it to the live action films, precisely for musical bits like this. The last song, with the line 'Roads go ever on' makes me cry every time.
@hehehehe7714 The live action was more of a spectacle and crammed more of the story in, but it lost some of the soul of the books. I'd say the Rankin/Bass people had more of that going for them.
@HyaenusDominae Gotta give it a chance. For those of us older and wiser, anime was just starting to make its way into America's subconscious. At this time, all we had was Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, and Starblazers. Rankin Bass was one of the first companies to blend Western storytelling with Japanese art/animation. Aside from being abridged for broadcast time restraints, this is a very lovingly faithful adaptation by people who, like P. Jackson, wanted to bring this story to everyone
. Gandalf then told his story of learning the truth about the Ring and his imprisonment by Saruman. When Tom Bombadil was mentioned, Galdor agreed that Tom could not keep the Ring safe, and he wondered whether it could be kept safe at Rivendell or the Havens or Lothlorien or anywhere else. And when the possibility of casting the Ring into the Sea was considered, Galdor warned that the road west would be closely watched by Sauron.
Did you know that there is only one elf who has a beard? he was Galdor and he attended the Council of Elrond. He asked for proof from Gandalf that the Ring that Frodo bore was indeed the One Ring of Sauron, and he wanted to know what Saruman's opinion was
However I suppose since I grew up with this I have more time to appreciate this version. I also remember reading the novels so many times, and I was somewhat saddened to see how LOTR was modernized. Sigh... I wish they would redo this LOTR, keep the illustrations, and the songs, but make it more graphic, and expand the plot to fit the novels.
I don't know what you mean by "modernized"..... And I personally hate most of the songs in this movie. They worked in the Hobbit movie because they were actually straight from the book and fit the tone most of the time. These songs just waste time and make the movie even more confusing and broken up than it already is.
Unlike Jackson who has billions of dollars at his back these people had a tight budget. I also mean by modernized in both the way the people of middle earth talk, the humorous references made and the scenery. Most of the workmanship's in the films were overly elaborate Helms Deep wasn't that nicely made into the stone. Also the songs they made for this were to focus on the mood of the story and to patch up the movie time line. However they did make the weapons and armor believably for the time.
I would think this movie version has more whimsy and more drama during Frodo and Sam parts than in Peter Jackson's version. At this film got many aspects of Tolkiens universe right, and didn't modernize Tolkien. The elaborate pipes, the complicated armor designs. Though I agree both had plot holes, and stuff not added in the novel, but I think most of the illustrations fit the characters in the universe more like the novel. Gollum looks just like Tolkien intended. Webbing and all.
With Geddy Lee on the lute.
Jimkaider 3 weeks ago
Say one thing for this ballad, say it sucks bad. You have to be realistic.
Oh wait, wrong nine fingered fantasy character.
bobojack83 3 weeks ago
Holy fuck, the Elven King made me choke.
sonofJack3 3 weeks ago
Their noses look like potatoes.
Luxo62094 1 month ago 3
THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH
AbsolutVeidt 1 month ago
That song never told bilbo how he lost the finger tho
balesshippolova 1 month ago
@balesshippolova no if you watch the whole movie it does explain how he lost the ring. the minstrel does sing thru the movie.
piratehalfe 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
I used to be a Mintrel, then I took an arrow in the knee.
masscowsuicide 1 month ago
it got cut a little short here. the minstrel of gondor's song actually lasts nine hours and forty-three minutes (and includes 197 doom-gloom/gloom-doom rhymes). "la la la, And then... fa la la, And then...
SandCPandK 2 months ago 2
The craziest Vibrato EVER
FrodOoOoOoOoOoO
EvilLurker121 2 months ago 3
@EvilLurker121
Luls yeah. That's how some minstrels sing, though.
redSG 1 month ago
this movie is pretty much a musical lmao.
Tsukiko330 2 months ago
WHATS WRONG WITH THEIR NOSES?????
TheWhitefight88 3 months ago
frodo of the nine fingers, stop your brother of doom.
LiberalsUtopian 3 months ago
THAT IS TOTALLY NOT THE ELVEN KING O_O
guthixbox381 3 months ago 5
i love the southpark references to these songs!!! that gerbil :D
themexiranian 3 months ago
Wikileaks The Phone Hacker, With A Heart Of Doom
BigJackFilms 3 months ago 5
@BigJackFilms YES! A another person who heard it too in the South Park episode! 1 Internet for you.
Villaking1337 3 months ago
FOUND IT WHEN i WAS HIGH
AEVautomatic 3 months ago
err ... is that frog Gollum?
rkrokberg 4 months ago
This is my childhood... :3
capstevo 4 months ago
i love this
scottdfreeman 4 months ago
I know I shouldn't be un-PC... but the hobbits have some big-ass noses!
NationalVideoWatcher 4 months ago
@NationalVideoWatcher That's nothing compared to the honker on that minstrel! >.<
Zagstrak 4 months ago
@NationalVideoWatcher thatsracist.gif
DarthSinistris 4 months ago
This, is.... HORRIBLE
JackShekalat 5 months ago
yeah! we want to hear a ballad about our own adventures that we had.
why gandalf, WHY?
aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa 5 months ago
I remember in elementary school, we were in the gymnasium, and we had a choice between watching this movie, or watching My Little Pony. I was one of the few who raised my hand for this. Just shows I knew what was good at an early age while the others were being brainwashed with rainbows and crap.
Stylez1877 6 months ago 3
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Stylez1877 6 months ago
FAIL
FreemanLambda 6 months ago
But can someone PLEASE tell me what was the point of Merry and Pippin in this version of the movie. I mean, Frodo and Sam go to destroy the Ring, NOT TELLING ANYBODY so why'd the other two Hobbits come along? And why did Aragorn call Gandalf "wizard", I thought he knew Gandalf well. I understand simplification, but seriously, the Minas Tirith subplot was boring.
DarthRushy 6 months ago
I've seen all the animated movies, Hobbit, Lotr, and ROTK and they're all cool.
DarthRushy 6 months ago
LMAO. What the fuck minstrel, they wanted to hear about how he lost his finger.... not the Bilbo's entire adventure.... Would've been so much easier to just say it was bitten off by Gollum ffs.
zDallasCowboys008z 6 months ago
0:05
Frodo looks like he's ready to slit his wrists. Maybe Bilbo should give him a day or two to work through his traumatic experiences before giving him crap about his ring.
Stuurminator 6 months ago
old bilbo is so cute!
cupcakes567 6 months ago
boromir: hi I'm boromir from gondor who are ye?
frodo: I'm frodo of the nine fingers
boromir: Nine fingers, never heard of that, where does it lay?
dragongame2 6 months ago
What did they think when they made Thraduil look like that!?
TheGirlstar99 6 months ago
Peter Jackson and his cast should do a live-action recreation of this with the same script, same blocking, same dialouge...and same SONGS. I would pay to see that.
daffodil977 6 months ago 6
Frodo's Ballad was good, but Bilbo's was still better.
Shodex4 6 months ago
"How did you lose your finger?"
"We have brought someone who has written a ballad of Frodo and his adventures. The minstrel of Gondor."
You mean you had this planned?
stitch99 7 months ago 6
The song that haunted my nightmares for all of the year I was 11.
PinkCharmander 7 months ago
Elven king? Kinda looks like a troll or orc or another form of Gollum... :(
Fenrir63 7 months ago
I love how the filmmakers spoil the ending to make sure the kiddies don't get scared that Frodo and Sam won't make it out.
ElvenRaptor 7 months ago
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this movie was so bad!
badgerattoadhall 7 months ago
@teaninerice Best. Video comment. Ever.
Smallsthehero 9 months ago
i like the first strum as he bows
Edd360 9 months ago
When I saw a picture Glenn Yarbrough I was so disappointed to see that he didn't look a thing like the minstrel of Gondor, idk I guess as a kid I always assumed they drew the minstrel as a caricature of him or something.
woollybully100 9 months ago
dude i didnt know they made lord of the rings after the hobbit! still the hobbit looks like the best one
Lorddavian0 10 months ago
Gandalf: "We have brought along someone who has written a ballad about the adventures of Frodo."
Everyone else: "...................And why the hell did you do that?"
VengefulKBM 10 months ago 14
Legolas's father doesn't look so good.
FantasyRoleplay 10 months ago 40
@FantasyRoleplay he looks more like the movie version in the hobbit.
Labcabin96 1 month ago
I really like this song. the whole "Frodo of the nine fingers and the ring of doom" part.
Also thumbs up if you agree that Sting looks better in this version vs. the live action.
TargonTheDragon 11 months ago
@TargonTheDragon I like the song but isn't the Ring Of Doom something completely different in the L.O.T.R world?
beamerball666 10 months ago
@beamerball666 I'm pretty sure that the "ring of doom" is the same as the "one ring" as in the one that Frodo Destroys.
TargonTheDragon 10 months ago 2
@TargonTheDragon Ever read the Silmarillion?
beamerball666 10 months ago
@beamerball666 if your so sure it is then why'd you bother asking?
roflrocketrofl 10 months ago
@roflrocketrofl I was trying to make a joke it failed lol
beamerball666 10 months ago
I really like this song. the whole "Frodo of the nine fingers and the ring of doom" part.
TargonTheDragon 11 months ago
0:25 THERES ME ON LOTRO
Thewolf878 11 months ago
"Sure, I'll tell you about how Frodo lost his finger. With a song about Bilbo's adventure." ...thanks Minstrel. You're fired.
SonicingAndEntering 11 months ago 156
@SonicingAndEntering WAIT WAIT WAIT! I also can tell you of how Frodo went on the great space coaster!
DickSimmons2 11 months ago
@SonicingAndEntering Oh who are You? I Am GANDALF/ODIN! That MEANS ME! ! !
ARP7777777 6 months ago
@SonicingAndEntering Oh, shut UP!
ARP7777777 5 months ago
@SonicingAndEntering While I somewhat have to agree with you, any excuse to hear Mr. Yarbrough is good enough for me. ;)
imaginaryobserver 4 months ago in playlist Love the Song
@SonicingAndEntering I think they had to do that because some untalented people made the Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers animation ("The Lord of the Rings" 1978) so they had to piece things together like this - the talented people made The Hobbit and this
Mastermind19871987 3 months ago in playlist The Return of the King Cartoon Songs
0:37 lol that guy looks like a monkey
theBeardedBloke3 11 months ago
Just to be clear I meant as evil more so as anything as like someone put it better ''He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.'' But no problem I just have trouble in saying things the way I meant
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1
Yes very true. I try not to interpret his works and link them to anything directly. He hated allegory's yet I am sure things in his life influenced his works such as his religion and WWI as well as WW2. However they definitely weren't anything as direct as the C.S Lewis.
BANZITOMMY 1 year ago
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bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
"It started two ages past"??? the minstrel needs a history lesson.I like this song I <3 this song.
NarnianQueen89 1 year ago
the guy singing, his nose is like bothering me haha
MegaMuton 1 year ago
One of the things I dislike about the new movies are they didn't capture the magic feel of tolkien that these films did. Yes they are cheesy but its just a low budget TV cartoon. A great tolkien tribute!
BANZITOMMY 1 year ago
@BANZITOMMY To me the three cartoon film versions was better throw and throw in adaptions but then again I have known these sense I was little and read the J.R.R Tolkien books alot. Which to me the books was meant as both light hearted yet serious at the same time.
Funny fact theres still religious debates about the book for all the myths and stuff thrown in along with the good Nature of the book,fact was Tolkien was religious and based the story in away to help teach morels.
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1
I watched these just recently in the past two years or so. At first I thought they were very silly but after viewing the newer films and thinking about it more I realize that they are better adaptions.
BANZITOMMY 1 year ago
@BANZITOMMY Yes its quite odd you would think the newer versions with newer tech would be but they apparently put less effort into it,its hard to explain that well I just see that Rankin/Base crew wanted to do the best possible in adaptions from books to movies. I personally like how they blended live action in there versions,especially those zombie like slaves of Sauron's seeing as the effects used to make them blend in the film make them feel creepier
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1
I enjoy them but I think they could have been better. I thought some of the animation was a bit hard to follow and some of the battles and such were a little boring. Sam also bothers me a bit. I did enjoy the script and voice acting. Some of the animation was done quite well too. John Hurt as Aragorn was fantastic :D
BANZITOMMY 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1 do you know how long it took to make all the films not to mention they had to live in new Zealand for the whole time and how much work was put into ligthing, effects, acting, etc. and you say it took less effort then 1 person animating and maybe 20 other people doing sounds and a couple of actors speaking lines ?
roflrocketrofl 10 months ago
@roflrocketrofl I already had on other vids about 15 people claiming to be who your claiming to be and I'll say what I've said to them all,even if you are who you claim to be[which I doubt] it really holds no ground without solid proof in reliable sources. But the fact is its easy to film a movie with real actors rather then a animated one,yes I know all that fancy costume stuff costs alot and takes alot of time along with filming and such
bladevstwilight1 10 months ago
@roflrocketrofl Not to forgot back when these animated films was made it wasn't as easy as that CGI one person crap,right theres a flaw in logic for you as Drawing by hand takes more time and effort onto a person to make the scenes as unlike real people the animated tech back then wasn't using the level of tech we have today. They used the best around back then and it wasn't just one animator the head guy behind the scenes is the 1 guy hes in essence a directer.
bladevstwilight1 10 months ago
@roflrocketrofl Before I forget not all of it was drawn some of the stuff was done with back them fairly complicated tech now easy as heck if you would know what your doing
bladevstwilight1 10 months ago
@BANZITOMMY Mmmm...no, I still think PJs version is better, although I do very much like the songs in here. Quite catchy
ZillaRocks 11 months ago
@ZillaRocks
While PJ's version is better, I thinking the cartoons better capture the book. I like the songs too hehe.
BANZITOMMY 11 months ago
@BANZITOMMY He make it also because he seen it a good way for people who wasn't religious to get the morels of what he believed was shown best in religion,although it start as a bedtime/fairy tail he told to kids along with afew songs/poems he made thats in his books. He had at a point even had to start righting it on paper for he was changing bit,
Or was the fairy tale to book ideal the person who made wizard of ozs no matter the rest of the fact is true tho for sure.
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@BANZITOMMY But he was a interesting man to make a story to teach morels and natures in such a way you could be drawn into a series of books for all ages,which it was first mean as a hole book but the place he wanted it made thought it was to big for that so he added abit to having a opening for the other books. Its even more intriguing that here afew years back a unpublished book he made was found and published
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@BANZITOMMY Its kinda funny if you think about myths like hobbits,nomnes[sp?] and leprechauns are infact real for the genetic condition that makes people short as heck. Then others like ogres or goblins could be people with a genetic condition making them huge,then myths like werewolfs could be people with a genetic condition that makes there hole body covered in fur and face kinda looking like a wolf in facel figures. Therefore in every myth theres a grain of truth
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@BANZITOMMY Heck another thing Tolkien had added myths of other cultures ether died out myths or not it seemed he added ones like the boat that bilbo left that was said to frodo Biblo would [if I recall right] live forever it was a mix of a old belief and a throw of region mixed in well in a sense kinda.
Sorry I ramble abit there my bad but atleast it was still kinda on the topic of the Tolkien books on them,sorry if I bothered you at all with the rambling
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@BANZITOMMY I meant as evil more so as anything as like someone put it better ''He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.'' But no problem I just have trouble in saying things the way I meant
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
JEW NOSE!!
TheFullMetalAMVs 1 year ago
FRODO OF THE NINE FINGERS AND THE RING OF DOOOOMMMMMM!!! I'm writing a film as literature paper on this movie.
StarLine317 1 year ago
The boldly brave Sir Frodo rode forth from Rivendell
He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Frodo
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways
Brave brave brave brave Sir Frodo
ZillaRocks 1 year ago 104
@ZillaRocks His penis split and his... Frodo: That's, that's enough music for now lads.
DickSimmons2 11 months ago
@ZillaRocks monty python best movie ever
lincolnhuseby9 8 months ago
@ZillaRocks i have to ask you three questions before you can cross the bridge of death!
WHAT is your name?
WHAT is your mission?
WHAT is your favorite colour?
NicriCOy 6 months ago
@ZillaRocks AH . . . One of Chicken-hearts minstrels! Brother!
ARP7777777 6 months ago
Potter Fans can go back to their soft fantasy school and stop trolling this video now, let me enjoy my ungodly catchy tunes in peace.
Gigas0101 1 year ago 6
TRUE STORY: i was humming this tune while in the library and then a older man walked past me and sang "Frodo of the niiiine fingersss....and the ring of doooooom." needless to say my mind was blown.
zig3 1 year ago 6
0:05 frodo looks pretty fucking stoned
golsonkp 1 year ago
@golsonkp Well he IS smoking pipeweed... probably a "special" blend if you catch my meaning.
wayne62682 1 year ago 2
@wayne62682 Truthfully back years and years ago there was for old folks that smoked a mix that had what was believed as a herbel cure for pain and other ailments that bothered the eldery,which is know known as a illegal drug. Which was said about the Indians and there peace pipe,albeit was mixed very little so it was safe snd not every tribe had illegal stuff like that. Though other trides had just pure 100/ tobacco they made from the tobacco plant
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@wayne62682 Albeit all of the illegal drug in the mixs to be smoke back then was safely mixed to were it was to low to mess with the mind or sense. Aside from relieving pain and other ailment based fatige along with relieving stress or tension,says docs in the med field by how the amounts read for making the tobacco blends.
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@golsonkp Truthfully back years and years ago there was for old folks that smoked a mix that had what was believed as a herbel cure for pain and other ailments that bothered the eldery. Albeit was mixed very little so it was safe all of the illegal drug in the mixs to be smoke back then was safely mixed to were it was to low to mess with the mind or sense. Aside from relieving pain and other ailment based fatige along with relieving stress or tension,
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@golsonkp So says docs in the med field by how the amounts read for making the tobacco blends.
[there was a funny ''need to enter text in box amount ago reason it was funny it needed entered ginseng funny because the topic was about what was believed as herbal remedy's years and years ago
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
at first I thought Gollum was a frog..O_o;
Aprilwolf94 1 year ago
Wormtounge-Wormtail, Aragon-Aragog, The One Ring-A Horcrux, you get the picture
kmgtex 1 year ago
@kmgtex good connections. Debatable.
silverakantor 1 year ago
@kmgtex You do known Tolkien was Christan,right? He meant the One Ring as a sigh of what evil could do to people and what is said Satan can do to people in tricking them. The names was more or less just something he thought of is all
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1 He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.
Gernam12 1 year ago
@Gernam12 Thats what I was trying to say but I can never think how to work a statement of mine the right,simple way. Its a a fact/trait of mine I hate for I tend to be misunderstood or it comes off making no sense.
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1 Ah, I see, sorry for the misunderstanding then.
Gernam12 1 year ago
@Gernam12 No problem we had the same thought so its ok
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
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bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
@bladevstwilight1 actually this comment was supposed to bash Rowling for picking very similar names from the Rings trilogy. Sorry if it was taken wrong. Im a huge Tolkien fan, but i also am an HP fan. I just found some of the similarities interesting is all. : )
kmgtex 1 year ago
@kmgtex I meant as evil more so as anything as like someone put it better ''He hated allegory to death. He made open ended Allegory which meant anyone could add meaning to his story. You could interpret the ring as Nuclear Energy, or Sauron as Hitler, etc. There is no straight meaning. He made sure his religion never interfered with his works, nor did he let his Christian fans get to him, unlike his Friend C.S Lewis.'' But no problem I just have trouble in saying things the way I meant
bladevstwilight1 1 year ago
wayne62682 1 year ago
@wayne62682 Frodo of the Nine fingers and the ring of doom accepted a heavy burden for the fires to consume.
DarthRushy 6 months ago
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Dumbledore would rape Gandalf the gay and kick the magical shit out of hiss AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
faggisthehaggis 1 year ago
@faggisthehaggis
snape kills dumbledore bitch
yet a mighty balrog couldnt even take down gandalf
partisan49 1 year ago 2
@partisan49 on dumbledores orders...
thcarmine 1 year ago
I can't believe people don't like this film. I have very fond memories of this movie and its charming songs.
MaurDL 1 year ago 5
Love this movie. Assuming you like LotR, I think it stands up well.
j3ff86 1 year ago
Try reading the simarillian, cause Tolkien is was better than Rowling, trust me
KylaCousland 1 year ago
@KylaCousland I did read the silmarillion and I agree it is a masterpiece, but like I said, Tolkien and Rowling cannot be compared. Their stories are so different.
stoffis772 1 year ago
Please do not compare Lord of the rings to Harry Potter. I love them both, in very different ways. Rowling can not in anyway compete with the mythology and history of Arda, but the HP series has something else. Let people enjoy either, stop comparing.
Great song btw.
stoffis772 1 year ago
@stoffis772 ditto. I understand why people make the connection. they are similar. Tolkien's world is deeper, by a lot. but Harry Potter, its good too. Ironically, HP feels more like Aesop's fables, isolated in its own reality, leading up to an obvious moral (dont try to be immortal/live and die honorably), even though it is technically set in the 'real world' while Tolkien feels like a lost part of real history, even though its set in Middle-Earth.
DarthRaukrist 1 year ago
It's because they are so similar
squareboy889 1 year ago
I don't understand why people compare Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings..just because the movies were released around the same times.
thecolombian913 1 year ago
WEEEEE!! Elrond with a beard! I've always loved that, it's so funny. Elves COULD grow beards, but the only one we know of was cirdan and he was old as dirt. But i love who voiced elrond though, he sounds like elrond should.
Estelnin 1 year ago
13 people know nothing about literature And would rather read Faggy Potter
n2123n 1 year ago
13 people know nothing about literature
n2123n 1 year ago
Harry Potter is a fag!! Middle Earth FOREVER!!
theinevitable56 1 year ago
Anyone else love the flashback montage of the monsters?
NaiTaiDai 1 year ago
@NaiTaiDai Haha! I do!
Ashleypalmer1991 1 year ago
Despite negative comments, I think this song is petty clever song & a different take on the book if they made a hundred movie they all could be done differently.
NarnianQueen89 1 year ago
@NarnianQueen89; Yes, everyone agrees this movie, and its warbling minstrel, is the pinnacle of cheesiness, but I too enjoy it nonetheless.
PadraikKasier 1 year ago
@PadraikKasier
People forget how many folky songs are actually IN THE GOD DAMN BOOKS....and how much song is integral to their mood.
Folky songs like this suit the story a lot better than any overproduced God-Chorus abusing Carmina Burana wannabe. I love Howard Shore, but.....he just wasn't the guy to score LOTR.
And 1:25 is just....fucking awesome.
Eldeecue 1 year ago 4
@Eldeecue; I agree about the folksiness of the songs present in the books, especially the ones in The Hobbit.
PadraikKasier 1 year ago
Glenn Yarbles
deconstructionist67 1 year ago
ahh this part i'm remember
lochmodan90 1 year ago
let me translate; "You don't know what shit I whent through, old man"
jadenkorkor 1 year ago
Admittedly it didn't do a good job of adapting the story in a way that was entirely understandable (I know my head hurt as a kid trying to understand what was going on.) However, there's some beautiful animation and songs, and the characterization of the hobbits themselves is some of the strongest I've seen, and the voice acting is awesome for the most part, if hammy in places. All in all, it's more than watchable, it's a good film.
ZoombiniChan 1 year ago
This was the worst movie ever. The Hobbit did a good job but this one was terrible.
danleclerc57 1 year ago
@danleclerc57 Just out of pure curiosity: Have you ever seen... *whispers* The Room?
Ictiv 1 year ago
@Ictiv the room?
danleclerc57 1 year ago
@danleclerc57 The Room! *sound of thunder and Dracula's laughter*
Ictiv 1 year ago
@danleclerc57; The room with a moose, of course.
PadraikKasier 1 year ago
@PadraikKasier Invader Zim niceeeee.
danleclerc57 1 year ago
FRODOOOOOO OF THE NINEEEEEEE FINGERS.... AND THE RING OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM
nybombs 1 year ago
wow.
thats all i need to say.
wow.
narniasunflower 1 year ago
all the hobbits are so cute in this cartoon :D
aoiniina 1 year ago
this is so weird
WWEinvadesTNA8 1 year ago
I grew up with this, and to be honest, I prefer it to the live action films, precisely for musical bits like this. The last song, with the line 'Roads go ever on' makes me cry every time.
Rhademanthus 1 year ago
@Rhademanthus Then ur a fuking retard, teh live action beats this like shogun beat machida
hehehehe7714 1 year ago
@hehehehe7714 The live action was more of a spectacle and crammed more of the story in, but it lost some of the soul of the books. I'd say the Rankin/Bass people had more of that going for them.
Rhademanthus 1 year ago
@hehehehe7714
ive got nothing to say about either i grew up with the cartoon the live one had more story. i like both.
Cierrakahana 1 year ago
0:20 Its Brave Sir Robin's favorite minstrel.
ThunderLizardsRule 1 year ago 6
and the ring of doooooooooooom
hederligman12 1 year ago
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This cartoon was terrible
doctorseaweed 1 year ago
He has such an awesome voice.
MedicalTerrorism 1 year ago
I think that this cartoon is a succesful version of Tolkiens works.
Sareth987 1 year ago 8
0:17
I can already tell I'm not going to enjoy this.
HyaenusDominae 1 year ago
@HyaenusDominae Gotta give it a chance. For those of us older and wiser, anime was just starting to make its way into America's subconscious. At this time, all we had was Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, and Starblazers. Rankin Bass was one of the first companies to blend Western storytelling with Japanese art/animation. Aside from being abridged for broadcast time restraints, this is a very lovingly faithful adaptation by people who, like P. Jackson, wanted to bring this story to everyone
skeletal13 1 year ago
o soz didnt read the desc
captainluigi112 1 year ago
if this was made after the rotk, then thats the wrong fnger
captainluigi112 1 year ago
he needs a nose job
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
@captainluigi112 its his left ringfinger anyways, isnt it?
gambit7775 1 year ago
. Gandalf then told his story of learning the truth about the Ring and his imprisonment by Saruman. When Tom Bombadil was mentioned, Galdor agreed that Tom could not keep the Ring safe, and he wondered whether it could be kept safe at Rivendell or the Havens or Lothlorien or anywhere else. And when the possibility of casting the Ring into the Sea was considered, Galdor warned that the road west would be closely watched by Sauron.
Stuathain1 2 years ago
Did you know that there is only one elf who has a beard? he was Galdor and he attended the Council of Elrond. He asked for proof from Gandalf that the Ring that Frodo bore was indeed the One Ring of Sauron, and he wanted to know what Saruman's opinion was
Stuathain1 2 years ago
Cirdan had a beard.
BiffaTW 1 year ago
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Erugh, I am cringing.
hellsbells056 2 years ago
LEMMEWINKS MINSTRIL!
LordoftheBagel 2 years ago 4
Great song!
Zicko1000 2 years ago
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Zicko1000 2 years ago
Gotta love Rankin Bass
aarondirebear 2 years ago
However I suppose since I grew up with this I have more time to appreciate this version. I also remember reading the novels so many times, and I was somewhat saddened to see how LOTR was modernized. Sigh... I wish they would redo this LOTR, keep the illustrations, and the songs, but make it more graphic, and expand the plot to fit the novels.
mrfivegold 2 years ago 4
I don't know what you mean by "modernized"..... And I personally hate most of the songs in this movie. They worked in the Hobbit movie because they were actually straight from the book and fit the tone most of the time. These songs just waste time and make the movie even more confusing and broken up than it already is.
Mooseboy018 2 years ago
Unlike Jackson who has billions of dollars at his back these people had a tight budget. I also mean by modernized in both the way the people of middle earth talk, the humorous references made and the scenery. Most of the workmanship's in the films were overly elaborate Helms Deep wasn't that nicely made into the stone. Also the songs they made for this were to focus on the mood of the story and to patch up the movie time line. However they did make the weapons and armor believably for the time.
mrfivegold 2 years ago 2
I would think this movie version has more whimsy and more drama during Frodo and Sam parts than in Peter Jackson's version. At this film got many aspects of Tolkiens universe right, and didn't modernize Tolkien. The elaborate pipes, the complicated armor designs. Though I agree both had plot holes, and stuff not added in the novel, but I think most of the illustrations fit the characters in the universe more like the novel. Gollum looks just like Tolkien intended. Webbing and all.
mrfivegold 2 years ago 4