I don't know, I can find quite a bit to reproach in the animated Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Like...dude, why does everything in this interpretation of Middle Earth seem to have a bulbous nose? Like dude, those schnauzes are something altogether else.
Now I've not seen the Bakshi versions, so I can't speak to those. But the more attempts I witness at interpreting written perfection visually, the more I'm happy to live with the images and voices that I've got in my own head. Images lacking those noses. Or trippy psychedelic spider death scenes.
Maybe if they tried it in like a series format, with about a hundred 1 hour episodes and sticking exactly to the text...but even then...
Also did you know that they're remaking the Hobbit AND doing a movie of the intervening years between the Hobbit and LotR?
Yeah, and I have no idea what they're planning to have happen in the intervening years. Considering that Bilbo does absolutely fuckall...maybe Aragorn becoming an adult? Bilbo goes from around 50 to 111, so Aragorn starts at 20 and rockets up to 80 someodd. Probably meeting Arwen, etc.
Well, considering I read that when they were shooting the Battle of the Pelennor Fields none of Jackson's people had read the book, and so thought that Sauron was fighting and not the Witch King...I don't expect much
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You know, there's all this fan gossip online about how Tolkien made a mistake putting Glorfindel in the trilogy. FOR SHAME! Glorfindel doesn't take a more active role because he's already doing something: guarding Imladris. If all of the uber Noldor left Rivendell and Lothlorien, Sauron wouldn't have any reason not to just waltz in and take over.
Grrr.
/end fanboy rage
But yeah, I expect that Peter Jackson's swole ego will come back with a vengeance. He really butchered things in Two Towers and RotK...god knows what he'll do in a second go-round.
An oft-overlooked fact: that cartoon is based on the original version of the Hobbit, before Tolkien edited it to make it mesh with LotR. So the elves actually aren't the same elves as in the regular Tolkien universe, they're the little twisted elves from the early Tolkien stuff like Tuor and the Elves.
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Like...dude, why does everything in this interpretation of Middle Earth seem to have a bulbous nose? Like dude, those schnauzes are something altogether else.
Now I've not seen the Bakshi versions, so I can't speak to those. But the more attempts I witness at interpreting written perfection visually, the more I'm happy to live with the images and voices that I've got in my own head. Images lacking those noses. Or trippy psychedelic spider death scenes.
Maybe if they tried it in like a series format, with about a hundred 1 hour episodes and sticking exactly to the text...but even then...
Also did you know that they're remaking the Hobbit AND doing a movie of the intervening years between the Hobbit and LotR?
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Blargh. Glorfindel, save us!
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Grrr.
/end fanboy rage
But yeah, I expect that Peter Jackson's swole ego will come back with a vengeance. He really butchered things in Two Towers and RotK...god knows what he'll do in a second go-round.
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And you should see Thranduil.
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Yeah the Elves look like...well something very sickly. Very, very sickly. I imagine they smell.
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