![]() Working from a live action film shot before the first drawing was made, Bakshi and his crew of artists - 150 strong - have imbued the cartoon form with vital signs never seen in animation before. On the whole, however, Bakshi has taken Tolkien's list of names and traits and given them weight and movement.Īnd how they move. Frodo and his fellow hobbits look more like big-eyed greeting-card kids than weird creatures from another age of Earth. Gandalf is entirely too much the cartoon wizard, far more avuncular and less ambiguous than in the book. There are some, of course, who will complain about the characterizations. What the film gains at Bakshi's hand is a very clever bag of animator's tricks, most of which serve to make Tolkien's characters palpable after all those years on paper. A sense of history, of inevitability, hung over Tolkien's epic, and it's hardly surprising that a much-streamlined film version has lost most of that. In the film, we are tossed suddenly into hobbits' lives of peace and ease in the Shire, then whisked out just as quickly on a journey through the sinister forests and caves of the Middle Earth. In the book, there is never of moment of doubt about the necessity for Frodo to journey to the land of Mordor to destroy the evil Ring of Power. That may have been inevitable, considering how mightily Tolkien labored to create a believable Middle Earth: every character in place, every magical occurrence explained.
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