Sunday Cinema: Ralph Bakshi’s Animated “Lord Of The Rings” (1978)
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, April 29th, 2012 at
12:15 am
I have oddly fond memories of this animated treatment of Tolkien’s classic. Ralph Bakshi’s presentation may be a truncation of the trilogy, but for its day, the animation was fantastic. Watch and see for yourself…
[via Kevin Maher]
Tagged with: J.R.R. Tolkien • Lord of the Rings • Ralph Bakshi • Sunday Cinema
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This film was very underappreciated when it was released. Enough so that the project was unfinished. Later Rankin Bass produced a finale to the film that I cannot bring myself to watch, since I generally loathe their other productions.
I believe all the animation was ‘rotoscoped’, traced from live action scenes.
Remember his movie Wizards?
I think I told the story that the reason I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings was because these films were going to be shown on TV back to back, and my brother thought that I should read them in the few days before they aired…