Review of The Lord of the Rings (1978) by Kevin R — 12 Feb 2013

This was a pretty good mucky and dark 70's Bakshi attempt at bringing the novels to life. Limited by time and budgets I think he opted for the rotoscoping and it allowed him to get things done quicker and cheaper.

This film does not match up to the Rankin/Bass Hobbit film a year earlier in terms of uniformity and fluid animation or character voices. So what does it have? It has the story, it has certain artistic moments, it has the audacity to try but since Jackson's LotR's trilogy this sort of falls by the wayside as curiosity.