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

Fool-of-a-Took · 10-15-2002, 01:03 PM

I saw it when I was about 12 years old on telly and loved it. It was my introduction to Tolkiens work and I probably wouldn't have bought the book if it wasn't for the cartoon. <BR>I know in retrospect it is an abominable adaptation with too many faults to list, but it still holds dear to me. The only problem was that for years I could only imagine the characters in the book looking like those in the cartoon, big hair!!

10-15-2002, 01:03 PM	#2
Fool-of-a-Took Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Newcastle England Posts: 14	Does anyone else like the cartoon? I saw it when I was about 12 years old on telly and loved it. It was my introduction to Tolkiens work and I probably wouldn't have bought the book if it wasn't for the cartoon. <BR>I know in retrospect it is an abominable adaptation with too many faults to list, but it still holds dear to me. The only problem was that for years I could only imagine the characters in the book looking like those in the cartoon, big hair!! __________________ ...and his eye, piercing all shadows, looked across the plain to the door that he had made;and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash.