What do you think of the Bakshi cartoon? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Renzolicious · 04-23-2011, 03:45 AM

I also saw this early on so it had some influence on my own imagination's creation of the characters as I read the original and heard the 1981 BBC dramatisation. It does have some good dark/evil atmosphere, and the way Gandalf was drawn was how I will always imagine him (well what I remember of the cartoon is how my imagination depicts him). But no on the whole it is terrible. Willow probably more influenced my imagination of Lord of the Rings, the small village with very little knowledge or influence in the greater world of men, and Willow and his friend who sticks around a while is pretty much how I imagine Frodo and Sam, albeit with the voices of Ian Holm and William Nighy.

04-23-2011, 03:45 AM	#13
Renzolicious Newly Deceased Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 6	Bakshi I also saw this early on so it had some influence on my own imagination's creation of the characters as I read the original and heard the 1981 BBC dramatisation. It does have some good dark/evil atmosphere, and the way Gandalf was drawn was how I will always imagine him (well what I remember of the cartoon is how my imagination depicts him). But no on the whole it is terrible. Willow probably more influenced my imagination of Lord of the Rings, the small village with very little knowledge or influence in the greater world of men, and Willow and his friend who sticks around a while is pretty much how I imagine Frodo and Sam, albeit with the voices of Ian Holm and William Nighy.