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TOLKIEN
MOVIES: The Lord of the Rings (1978)
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Ralph
Bakshi's
animated movie "The Lord of the Rings" appeared
in 1978. It is an animated movie, based on "The Fellowship
of the Ring" and part of Book 3 of "The Two Towers".
TITLE: The
Lord of the Rings
YEAR: 1978
TYPE: Animated
movie
DIRECTED BY:
Ralph Bakshi
STORYLINE:
J.R.R. Tolkien (books) and P.S. Beagle
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Christopher
Guard as Frodo Baggins
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William
Squire as Gandalf
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Michael
Scholes as Samwise Gamgee
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John Hurt
as Aragorn
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Simon Chandler
as Meriadoc
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Dominic
Guard as Pippin
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Norman Bird
as Bilbo Baggins
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Michael
Graham Cox as Boromir
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Anthony
Daniels as Legolas
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David Buck
as Gimli
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Peter Woodthorpe
as Gollum
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RUNTIME:
132 min
COUNTRY:
USA
LANGUAGE:
English
The movie
has been controversial amongst Tolkien Fans. The opinions vary
from a brilliant masterpiece to a big disgrace. The Movie is a
combination of animation and live action. In the making of the
movie the scenes were first acted out by real actors and then
(partly) painted over by animators. This results in an odd style,
somewhere inbetween an animated and a motion picture movie.
The
movie begins with the forging of the Rings and how the Ring came
in the possesion of Bilbo Baggins. The movie partly follows the
storyline of the books. Bakshi made some alterations to the story
which resulted in protest by Tolkien fans. The most notible is
the changing of the name Saruman in Aruman. The director thought
the names Sauron and Saruman were too much alike and decided to
change Saruman in Aruman. Tom Bombadil and some other side events
have been removed from the storyline. Glorfindel and his part
in the flight over the Fords has been replaced by Legolas who
joins the hobbits before they even reach Rivendell.
The characters
all seem to suffer from a bit of over-acting. Especially Sam,
whose love for Frodo seems just a bit too enthustiastic, has been
a source of mockery for a long time. Unfortunately Bakshi never
completed the second part and that leaves the first part with
a very abrupt ending. Rankin and Bass continued the story from
there in 1980.
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Internet movie database
: Movie reg. no: 0077869
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www.lordoftherings.com : Movie section
- The Lord
of the Rings, R. Bakshi (dir), Warner Home Video, 2001
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