What do you think of the Bakshi cartoon?

[Imladris]

Saucepan Man, you stole the words right out of my mouth. Curses, foiled again! Ahem.

I personally have never seen LotR, but I have seen The Hobbit, which freaked me out to put it bluntly. But, my main point is that I would never have read LotR if it hadn't been for that animated hobbit which was fairly good in my humble opinion. So what if Gollum looked like a frog. I don't believe Tolkien really described him that clearly in The Hobbit. As for the elves, I think they were green to get that glow look that is mentioned in FotR somewhere...they weren't that bad, really...

And yes, if it hadn't been for the horrid animations, then Jackson wouldn't have made the films, which some may view as a good thing, but I think the majority would mourn the loss.