I love how Legolas looks like an Oblivion character.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

BY AZURA! BY AZURA! BY AZURA!

@mynona2491

10 ай бұрын

Oh god he's that yellow haired fanboy mf that got send to death in every possible way known to Tamriel

@00Kuja00

10 ай бұрын

There is a reason behind his hair. Around the 70s it was not clear which shape the elves had so every artwork kept them hidden under hair. Later it became clear what Tolkien had in mind, I think through some letters they found.

@peterkim3370

10 ай бұрын

@@PsyCasticAzura the good witch

@dragonlady266

10 ай бұрын

​@00Kuja00 I was also referencing the eyes and general head shape, but that's a neat fact though.

i know this is about legolas but Gandalf just emerging from the trees with a blanket over his head cracked me up so bad

@Rumade

9 ай бұрын

The costuming for this version is much more accessible for fans to replicate

@David_Fellner

9 ай бұрын

Cracking with laughter is exactly the right reaction to most of the shenanigans that goes on in these movies.

@ThibautVDP

9 ай бұрын

Just gandalf pulling a jerk prank on them!

@TheGoIsWin21

9 ай бұрын

And he's like... 12 feet away. And everyone just sort of watches him walk closer while Gimli screams

@violet-trash

9 ай бұрын

"I'm in disguise, this way no one will recognise me!"

1:48 Legolas' attempt to smile at lesser creature, but in his mind his elven supremacy burns with the desire to shut the mutant up.

@MusicByKsyusha

10 ай бұрын

most accurate comment I have ever read

@princessofthecape2078

10 ай бұрын

Accurate assessment. I like Sam in this rendition, but he is NOTHING like the contemplative Samwise in the books.

@Thecoolestgalonthebeach

10 ай бұрын

I thought his name was sandwich

@Shaigrovil

10 ай бұрын

hahahahahahahah take my upvote, you made me laugh. I'm making a meme with this scene.

@sirbig8292

10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the smiling scene from Terminator 2.

The pants-less Native American Aragorn just ties the whole movie together 🤣🤣🤣

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

If only his pants were tied up.

@peterkim3370

10 ай бұрын

@@PsyCasticif only he wore pants

@ThePUNISHEDBacon

10 ай бұрын

I hate to sound like the 🤓meme, but the outfit is more akin to a Late Roman Tunic.

@handpan4695

9 ай бұрын

​@@ThePUNISHEDBacon Got it Italian kilts

@KopperNeoman

9 ай бұрын

American Indians don't call themselves that.

Now I understand the inspiration behind Orlando Bloom intensely and aggressively existing while in the background of Jackson's films.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

"We are proud to pay homage to Bakshi once more."

@mattrasp1615

9 ай бұрын

It’s been a minute since I’ve read but no shot Legolas met them between Bree and Rivendell right?

@slappyjones2136

9 ай бұрын

@@mattrasp1615 the merged the character Glorfindel and Legolas. In the book, Legolas doesn’t make an appearance until Rivendell and Glorfindel is the one who helps Frodo escape the riders. In this adaptation, Legolas takes on both roles. Which makes more sense tbh but Tolkien loves to build out his universe

@mattrasp1615

9 ай бұрын

@@slappyjones2136 ahh i was skipping thru I figured they definitely just had glorfindel playing his part and honestly had that in my Memory of this adaptation. Makes you appreciate PJ even more

@slappyjones2136

9 ай бұрын

@@mattrasp1615 and PJ swapped Glorfindel for Arwen! Glorfindel got the shaft in the adaptations, but I guess it’s Tolkien’s fault for not making him do anything else in the books.

"If we lose even a little time, we lose Frodo" said Legolas while leisurely strolling along after pausing to share a word with Sam.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

IKR. With 5 Black Riders travelling at the speed of Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

@MrMegamike2k

10 ай бұрын

It's because he doesn't give a shit.😅😂

@subliteral

10 ай бұрын

@@MrMegamike2k That would explain a lot.

@Thecoolestgalonthebeach

10 ай бұрын

Just having a casual conversation while frodo dies, very funny.

@Byssbod

10 ай бұрын

Did they meet Legolas way earlier in this adaption?

I love that during the movie they occasionally decide the animating is just too hard and give up.

@CosmicSoul333

9 ай бұрын

😂

@lemon9212

9 ай бұрын

I legit think they ran out of budget lol

@NowhereBeats

9 ай бұрын

There was an anime in the 70s where for a few scenes it was just real people with anime heads super imposed on to them. It always cracked me up.

@exogenesus6841

9 ай бұрын

It looks like the entire film is rotoscoped

@codyrichards5980

9 ай бұрын

​@@exogenesus6841 I always heard the style refered to as "heavily rotoscoped." It's so uncanny.

Legolas is so disgusted by Potato Sam, even if he tries to smile through it. I love it.

@heroicjourney2508

5 ай бұрын

His eye came out for a second 😂😂😂

“pippin and merry may be dead by now. we don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️” and then the “one of them anyway” after gimli rejoices about them being alive is absolutely insane and i love him

@miles2593

9 ай бұрын

WHY IS HE SO AGGRESSIVE IM GOING INSANE

@towelgirl21

9 ай бұрын

"There will be no more signs!" *jogs away frustratedly*

@error-try-again-later

9 ай бұрын

His face always looks so mildly disdainful and it's amazing 💀

@s.e.e455

9 ай бұрын

He’s just very jaded from war and matter-of-fact, he doesn’t sugar coat or mince words.

@s.e.e455

9 ай бұрын

@@towelgirl21I interpreted it as, “There will be no more signs because we will find them quickly,” but perhaps I was being optimistic 😂

Love how even in their animated forms they all still have the big 70’s hair lol

@jesserichardson8116

10 ай бұрын

Everyone in this movie is either edited live footage or live footage that was traced over. Very likely that’s the very hair the actors had! Tree beard is the only character in the movie that is completely animated independent of a live reference

@Soviless99

10 ай бұрын

except gimli

@cromwell300

10 ай бұрын

Well except for Gimli lol

@00Kuja00

10 ай бұрын

At the time it was not clear what ear shape the elves had, so every artwork had them hidden under hair. It later became clear, I think through the many letters Tolkien had sent to his friends about his work.

@BananaPhoPhilly

9 ай бұрын

@@jesserichardson8116 I love rotoscoping

I love this sassy Legolas, the way he quickly snapped and delivered "Then you know nothing in Gondor" was hilarious for me xD

@acecondor289

10 ай бұрын

The Sass is because is he played by C3P0

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

Boromir: "One does not simply walk into Mordor..." Legolas: "THEN YOU KNOW NOTHING IN MORDOR!"

@Lemuel928

10 ай бұрын

What about Edgy Live Action Legolas?

@faleilham8334

10 ай бұрын

Proceeds to step on the Hobbits

@houston1342

10 ай бұрын

​@@Lemuel928 Edgy?

Boromir has no pants. Boromir needs no pants.

@ChihuahuainaTrenchcoat

9 ай бұрын

You mean Aragorn?

@fionnaitsradag5152

9 ай бұрын

🤣

@Contraltissimo

9 ай бұрын

This just made my life.

@firecloud6503

9 ай бұрын

Pants are overrated.

@richtomchuk1584

9 ай бұрын

@@ChihuahuainaTrenchcoat both of them really.

"What a people you dwarves are for hiding things. On the gates of your most wonderous, ancient kingdom you write, 'Speak, friend, and enter,' and no spell in any language can open the door." I LOVE this line.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

One of my favourite lines of his, and after the door to Moria is opened.

@Thecoolestgalonthebeach

10 ай бұрын

I love how this movie ended before frodo destroyed the ring

@Filbi

10 ай бұрын

Gimli: "Yeah, you got me there."

@vaxrvaxr

10 ай бұрын

​@@ThecoolestgalonthebeachTrue to the book, at least for the most of us

@Wavemaninawe

9 ай бұрын

Gandalf - Oh, Gandalf... you old fool! Heh heh! * speaks 'friend' in Elvish, and enters * Legolas - Well, shit... I guess the joke is on me.

The way he looked at Sam and rested his hand on him while patronisingly saying 'Sam, No resting can help your mr.frodo now.' Like,he legit sounded like he sighed Sam's name like a fed up parent and followed it with a tone that said 'you're an utter fuckwit but you have a good heart at least.' While explaining how Lord Elrond will help absolutely slayed me.

@magnuskallas

8 ай бұрын

He sure is a testament to a simple passive aggressive worm trying to sound deep.

3:14 Aragorn so happy you'd think that was his first time winning a fight

Legolas's skills include, archery, tracking, speaking to trees, and delivering clunky dialogue while chewing on his own lips.

This Legolas has biblically accurate angel vibes. He's creepy and weird.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

Who may have a supply elf spliff.

@subliteral

10 ай бұрын

I'm telling you I feel the same. He's otherworldy here and slightly uncanny. I love this version just for that.

@KlutzyNinjaKitty

9 ай бұрын

I think it’s because his features here are slightly warped. His eyes are close together and are upturned in an odd way, his nose is very narrow and pointy, and they animated his mouth in a very odd way when compared to everyone else. Combine that with the very human movements (because it’s rotoscoped) it makes him kinda uncanny. Which is fitting for an elf, tbh.

@happyllama1160

9 ай бұрын

I love this!!! Elves are meant to be terrifying yet beautiful and wise. I wish they leant more into this in the movies, I thought the rankin bass version did well at it too

@unikeko96

9 ай бұрын

​@@KlutzyNinjaKittyMy eyes are like that 😮

Wild that Legolas is voiced by C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels.

@christopherhelton6999

10 ай бұрын

"Oh! Oh, I say! Gimli! Help! Oh, you miserable, stupid dwarf!"

@matthewosterman9030

10 ай бұрын

No wonder his voice is so nice

@zmani4379

10 ай бұрын

I think this is the only other role I remember him for

@seanj6310

9 ай бұрын

And this film was released a year after Star Wars (1977). He sounds so much younger...

@HAMWICH90

9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU was trying to figure out where else I'd heard him!

Gimli: “They’re alive!” Legolas: “psh, one of them, I guess. Damn.”

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

"Pippin and Mary may be dead by now, we don't know (Nor do I give a flying fuck)"

@Gee-xb7rt

10 ай бұрын

I think you have to remember Legolas is a young man of 3000 yrs old, his view on mortality is a bit different.

I really love how whimsically uncanny this Legolas is

So interesting that all three versions have a different character arriving post nazgul blade scene; Glorfindel in the books, Arwen in the movie and Legolas in the cartoon.

@kornrok1

10 ай бұрын

Spoken like Eomer.

@00Kuja00

10 ай бұрын

I don't know if you can call the books a "version" since they are the fundament.

@julespulp214

10 ай бұрын

​@@00Kuja00 yet this part is a bit tricky for adaptations to deal with, since Glorfindel only shows up here and never again. It works very well for the book's worldbuilding (which is fundamental like you said), but on a limited screetime it feels completely missplaced.

@paulsarnik8506

10 ай бұрын

I forgot Glor' got shafted in the Bakshi 'toon too! 🤓😎✌🏻

@Painocus

10 ай бұрын

@@julespulp214 There is also that Tolkien put him there still thinking that LotR and the Silmarillion would be published togheter as the publisher originally promised him.

Weird seeing gimli as tall as legolas 😂

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

Nah, Legolas is a wood elf (Bosmer) By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!

@lang1301

10 ай бұрын

@@PsyCastic dude the game you are refering to came out 13 years ago its crazy

@suggiethames9870

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, what the fuck was up with that. it is ANIMATION COULDN'T THEY HAVE JUST DRAWN HIM SHORTER?

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

@@lang1301 I was referencing Oblivion, which was 17 years ago. Like the time it took Gandalf to research the ring and travel.

@sudanemamimikiki1527

10 ай бұрын

@@suggiethames9870 its rotoscoped animation. idk if the hobbit are rotoscoped too..or if its children playing the characters

I like the idea of elves having a uncanny appearance to them and not just being humans with pointy ears.

@gaebren9021

3 ай бұрын

Yes, like his eyes.

Are we not going to talk about the fact that Aragorn isn't wearing any pants? Is he wearing booty shorts or just a miniskirt?

@Elcore

10 ай бұрын

He shat himself on Weathertop and Pippin discreetly lent him a pair of hobbit trousers.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

It's too feel the breeze between the knees.

@lucretiamacevil362

10 ай бұрын

Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants.

@SusanDelgado1177

10 ай бұрын

​@@Elcoreyour comment made me lmao, get a coughing fit & nearly shit myself too. Good job, sir

@CatharticCreation

10 ай бұрын

aragorn in booty shorts are what the peter jackson films are missing tbh

I know it's a Legolas compilation, but I wish it went just 10 seconds more to get my favorite Gimli bit! "So all you had to do was say friend and enter" [Gimli lets out a world weary sigh] "Those were happier times..."

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

We all would like more with our camp Elffy Friend. I wish he had interacted more with others. He did more so than Bloom.

watching legolas drop his arrow and cry out in dismay like in the book was a weirdly satisfying touch

@Contraltissimo

9 ай бұрын

Dang it I want to like this comment more than once. For how goofy and clunky this movie can be.... you can tell it's still full of a lot of love for the source material.

At 4:05 "then you know nothing in Gondor!!" His face is something extra.

@sparrowt4082

6 күн бұрын

(⁠ノ⁠ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ⁠)⁠ノ "Then you know _nothing_ in Gondor!!"

It still has a certain charm to it. Shame they didn't complete the full book.

@MacedonZero

10 ай бұрын

I read once that the plan was initially to do return of the king as a separate movie, but they never got around to it. Possibly by design. Ralph Bakshi was forced to do this movie against his will, so he may have done everything he could to delay/prevent the sequel

@00Kuja00

10 ай бұрын

Agree. I first saw this back in 95 and I love their take on Sauron and the more dark atmosphere overall.

@Novusod

10 ай бұрын

There was an animated Return of the King but it was done by a different Studio that being Rankin-Bass. They were the same studio that did the animated Hobbit (1977).

@00Kuja00

10 ай бұрын

@@Novusod They look really bad.

@Rekaert

10 ай бұрын

@@Novusod If I recall that was the one where the animation style was very close to A Flight of Dragons, and where the Witch King sounded like Skeletor from the He-Man series. I don't 'think' I've ever seen the full thing, but my suggested feed keeps getting clips from time to time.

In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Legolas is special. In this Lord of the Rings Legolas is _special_ .

@lazylazymule

10 ай бұрын

Some of the animation is so bad he looks like he has downs syndrome. It's pretty terrible.

@Treopse

10 ай бұрын

Literally what I thought😂

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

Both elfsesss are precious!

@catsupempire3920

9 ай бұрын

ableist

@Steir12

9 ай бұрын

Everybody is sort of special in this version.

"What do you hear?" "Nothing." Dramatic turn towards camera. "But I _feel."_ Greatest moment on film. Should have won an Oscar.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

Legolas: "Nothing...but I can't feel my face."

@Aileil

9 ай бұрын

That really is gold.

The uniqueness of Legolas here is in when one moment I admire the fact that they bothered to animate the licking of lips while running, but immediately the next second we all wonder what's wrong with his eyes.

@JoePedo

8 ай бұрын

What would you do if you looked at medusa?

I always found this movie extremely interesting. It looks so... special, like as if someone just had the bare minimum of money and used every trick. Also, Boromir is a Viking, Aragorn is a native American, Legolas is an Elve and Elrond is Julius Ceasar, now how do you find that?

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

I find it interesting that the animation team conjure their style of the characters. Even if they are not faithful to the book.

@Abilliph

10 ай бұрын

*Caesar

@93bencomo

9 ай бұрын

The backgrounds weren't made in a botched manner. The film has a lot of different hand-painted landscape fores. This type of details that usually go unnoticed, but where you can see the care with which they made it.

@locnar1

9 ай бұрын

Tolkein's daughter consulted on character design, and told Bakshi what the different Middle Earth cultures were inspired by. it may have been taken too literally but at least they asked a family member.

@SysterYster

8 ай бұрын

I think the movies were pretty expensive to make. They filmed everything, then painted over it, frame by frame by hand. That's why they didn't make the second movie, it cost too much and didn't sell well enough. Certainly gave it a unique look though.

Gimli being nearly as tall as legolas is really odd

3:31 as they are running away Aragorn‘s looking over at Legolas is hilarious. They’re “flying along” but Aragorn is clearly thinking “What… is up… with your… face…”

@L1Run

8 ай бұрын

Lol Legolas sticks his tongue out for basically no reason whatsoever

@thecensoredmuscle563

4 ай бұрын

Aragorn is one to speak

Legolas smiling while riding his horse and then hugging Aragon was my favorite part of the movie.

@trumpsextratesticle8590

7 ай бұрын

Dude looks like he has SEEN THINGS!

I love how sometimes the actors were barely traced over, especially the Orcs, it makes the movie feel so surreal.

"Then you know nothing in Gondor!" Holy shit, dude.

Aragorn(readying himself for the next threat): What do you hear? Legolas(Crosses eyes and bites his lip) : Nothing. But I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllll

An asian, a native American and a viking stepped into Bree…

I never noticed how gigantic belt buckles are in this version. Aragorn's is bigger than his head.

@stivklif

9 ай бұрын

Tolkien had a special fascination for belts and their buckles, and for curiously fashioned door knobs

@thekiss2083

8 ай бұрын

He's got to keep his pants from falling down! ......oh, wait

@SewingMink160

3 ай бұрын

​​@@thekiss2083 Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants

I do like his voice. So calm.

@mangoflavor4361

10 ай бұрын

Legolas ASMR

@towelgirl21

8 ай бұрын

Except when he says "You know nothing in Gondor!"

3:12 Imagine getting stabbed to death by some guy in shorts and then he points, laughs, and pirouettes at you.

@PsyCastic

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like a toxic player in a online battle that's been heavily modded.

"Legolas, can you speak Bocce?" -- "Of course I can, sir. It's like a second language to me...."

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

More second than elvish.

@thejuiceking2219

3 ай бұрын

of course, he's fluent in over 6 million forms of communication

1:48 It's like he wants to punch Sam but he's fighting his inner demons from doing it 😂

It's hard to pinpoint why, but this Legolas has extreme Luigi energy.

@skydancer644

8 ай бұрын

What exactly do you mean Legolas has extreme Luigi energy? I'm not seeing any similarities between the two. You do mean Luigi from the Super Mario Bros right?

@jackg.1683

8 ай бұрын

@@skydancer644 There's not really actual similarities, it's just the energy

@Purple_.Duck..

7 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m saying😭

@eminkilicaslan8945

6 ай бұрын

I would argue they share contrasting slender shape and no visible jawline.

@RanOutOfSpac

5 ай бұрын

That’s mama Luigi to you

1:48 The pure look of disgust on his face, priceless. 😂 "What the F am i looking at?!"

So funny to remember this was the most popular imagery most people had in their heads about LOTR before the Peter Jackson films for the longest time

I used to watch this repeatedly as a kid and it holds such a special place in my heart. I do remember watching Legolas and thinking to myself thats not how real people's faces work though.

Gimli, tallest of all the dwarves. So tall that if it wasn't for everyone else telling us he was a dwarf, we'd never know...

“Pippin and Merry may be dead by now, we don’t know.” Legolas said with no emotion or feeling whatsoever

This is absolutely mesmerizing. I've watched this video at least five times. 20 minutes of my life devoted to 1978 animated Legolas.

@PsyCastic

9 ай бұрын

Why stop at 5?

@towelgirl21

9 ай бұрын

@@PsyCastic I should have written "so far" in there

@towelgirl21

9 ай бұрын

I keep coming back.

i just love Aragorn being so happy to see Legolas and them immediately sharing a big ol hug. Such bros

@Edge_Boye

4 ай бұрын

Yes… bros….

@mackenziemorris3102

4 ай бұрын

@@Edge_Boye just bros being bros

2:35 That is one tall dwarf.

I remember when a Legolas was a Scottish girl who liked putting plastic bricks together.

@Darth_Memus

10 ай бұрын

Brother, this has gotta be the most underrated comment of all time, this is an amazing dad joke

@Bendesho

10 ай бұрын

Took me several seconds. Lulz.

@hopefullyhelping6664

9 ай бұрын

This comment gave me psychic damage. 😭

@zzodysseuszz

9 ай бұрын

The “a” before Legolas was a very important note to make this comment make sense

@lorissteck3853

9 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ…. GO TO BED KENNY…😂

One cannot simply have a Logolas highlight reel without the words: "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!!"

0:45 I died laughing Gandalf is such a troll lol.

"One of them, anyway." Goddamn try not to sound _too_ happy about it Legolas 😂💀

Hearing that Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) played Legolas intrigued me, so I looked this up. I dunno what exactly I was expecting, but he sounds unrecognizable. Goes to show he’s a very versatile actor who brings a real talent to a variety of character types. An underused actor. Also John Hurt is great in this and his voice is so lovely and soothing, another enormous but under appreciated talent

Gimli isn't even a dwarf. He's just some 5'6" middle aged man.

Now looking back at cartoon Legolas, i really don't understand what the hell is up with his eyes, really looks like somebody made custom Dark Souls player model in minute.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

His facial structure changes and morphs throughout, especially his eyes. We first see him with big eyes, later they shrink. Like Link in Ocarina Of Time

@Quirderph

10 ай бұрын

I assume they were trying to make him look otherworldly. How well that worked is another question.

This version of Legolas had a lot going for it as far as I'm concerned. He's unabashedly beautiful & graceful. His voice is melodious as described. Straight up deadly in battle. I like him , even though he's been erased from existence by Orlando Bloom's portrayal for this generation.

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

I'd like Legolas in this film too. Appearance and personality. When Jackson's version came out, he became more awesome. At one point he was my favourite character in LOTR.

@archvaldor

10 ай бұрын

" I like him , even though he's been erased from existence by Orlando Bloom's portrayal for this generation." For YOUR generation perhaps.

@uphilliceskater

10 ай бұрын

Christopher Tolkien wrote this in The Book of Lost Tales II: "Ultimately, of course, the Elves shed all associations and qualities that would be now commonly considered 'fairylike', and those who remained in the Great Lands in Ages of the world at this time unconceived were to grow greatly in stature and in power: there was nothing filmy or transparent about the heroic or majestic Eldar of the Third Age of Middleearth. Long afterwards my father would write, in a wrathful comment on a 'pretty' or 'ladylike' pictorial rendering of Legolas: He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgul, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship."

@subliteral

10 ай бұрын

@archvaldor Ha! Thanks for thinking I'm that young. Bakshi's Legolas was the first I'd ever seen on film ; I was about 16 and saw this movie during its theatrical run.

@RedFloyd469

10 ай бұрын

@@uphilliceskater Damn... So you're saying Legolas was the original gigachad and not the skinny wood-elf stereotype we see everywhere?

Man i had forgotten this. It really is a very unique gem of an adaptation. Not to mention it was all done with semi practical sets and rotoscoping. Just the whole idea of: “we cant really do this with practical fx in this day and age, what if we did it with animation? But like… with people.” Its just an amazing product of its time.

@MrSoso1050

10 ай бұрын

A bunch of talented people at the right place at the right time. To create this impossible masterpiece.

@KopperNeoman

9 ай бұрын

It's just the CGI of its era.

@K12machinima

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’s truly a great film, for all its faults. It has a tone more close to the novels, with a vibe of seriousness and stoic dialogue, which I always had in mind when reading through the trilogy. I prefer it to the Jackson adaptation, but it’s not to say those films are bad - I just feel the Bakshi version has a better atmosphere, and conveys the rugged and ever present danger that Middle-Earth has in it. Jackson just kind of paints this “pretty” and grand version of Middle-Earth, with Mordor being “the bad area”, where Bakshi had the idea to paint the world as being wild and pristine, but always with a hint of danger in the depths. I even prefer the Bakshi orc designs to the Jackson ones, just barely, because they looked more menacing and wild, and closer to the interpretation of them being corrupted men/elves. Dunno. I could talk about this film for hours, it’s just a great oddity. :)

1:07 Omg they're friends tho. I love it. 10/10 no notes, change nothing.

The heights of all the characters are completely inconsistent

My dad was convinced that this version was more accurate to the book because in the book, Glorfindel showed up to take Frodo to Rivendell. So he turned the movie on and said "look its Glorfindel!" but 0:09 humbled him real quick XD

This is C-3PO who's voicing Legolas - I loved, loved this film when I saw it in the cinemas - it's the film that really got me into Tolkien (along w that magical Hobbit cartoon w its folk songs and incredible dragon) - nothing compares w Jackson's version, but this film had a major impact on many of its initial young viewers - along w Watership Down and the entrancing Last Unicorn, these fierce cartoons felt like a bridge into being a grown-up

I love the combination of mediums. You've got painted backdrops, live-action, traditional animation, rotoscoping, and one shot where Aragorn and Legolas are running where the background seems to literally be a blue-painted wall. One of the things I find really funny is how some scenes you can tell how obviously rotoscoped the scene is. And it seems like the Hobbits aren't rotoscoped, or at least they didn't follow it as closely, but that's probably due to their size. They couldn't be filmed interacting with the actors who were filmed for the rotoscoping. Gimli is also very tall, which I find funny. Boromir's horned helmet is also very amusing. As is Aragorn's lack of pants.

3:38 licking his lips while running, i can relate.

Legolas looks like an occasional recurring character from the Prince Valiant cartoon series.

So this is where Bethesda got their visual ideas for elves in Oblivion

@BluezJustice

2 ай бұрын

LMFAO

I don’t know a thing about The Lord of the Rings (other than the fact that it’s a book series?), but the expression at 1:48 is the best thing I’ve seen this week

This is the closest to book Legolas that we see on screen

0:17 A heavy drunken pal and me when we finally find each other in a party while congratulating in Simlish.

@ilikechoccymilk5605

10 ай бұрын

That's oddly specific

@GeigermSv

10 ай бұрын

@@ilikechoccymilk5605 And oddly looking like this according friends.

4:00 *Jesus* Boromir, what happened to your sword?!

@willvermillion1025

10 ай бұрын

He was stressed so he chewed it like a pencil

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

He ran out of repair hammers. :P

The people who made this film didn't have to make it so comedic, yet here we are, and I am happier for it.

0:17 ok as much as I love making fun of this version relentlessly, this is genuinely adorable

Ralph Bakshi's work is very distinct. Also Legolas has Steve Irwin's face in the thumbnail 😂 Love it.

@PsyCastic

9 ай бұрын

Crikey!

I actually think Frodo and Legolas in this version were the only characters that felt like their book counterparts.

My Favorite Line is at 2:49 its like you just told him the same joke for 3 days now at every turn.

Normal height Gimli doesn't exist, he can't hurt you...

@PsyCastic

9 ай бұрын

No...but HE can toss you!

Somehow Aragorn feels like the *S P E C I A L* one here.

I own a lot of the animation cells from this! My treasured one is the balrog ❤

@Contraltissimo

9 ай бұрын

Haha that's really cool! :D

I like this version. Tolkein elves aren't improved humans. They are utterly inhuman. The minds of biblicially accurate angels in the bodies of alpine succubus-vampires and old irish baby-stealing man-eating time-manipulating yandere banshees.

@lightborn9071

10 ай бұрын

Why do I now have Warhammer in my mind?

@allengordon6929

10 ай бұрын

@@lightborn9071 well, the 40k versions are called eldar after all

Rotoscoping looks a bit wack, but it does have a certain charm

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

May I recommend watching: A Scanner Darkly. It's a bit psychedelic but great.

@BlackSeedCH

10 ай бұрын

Wizards

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

@@BlackSeedCH Wizards is great too. If were going with Bakshi's Rotoscope, then Cool World too.

@BlackSeedCH

10 ай бұрын

@@PsyCastic Cool World, i lost this, we had to get the VHS from a friends dad, from his special casket... 😁, same for Heavy Metal 🤣

@zmani4379

10 ай бұрын

@@PsyCastic great suggestion - everyone should see this

Ah yes, the three great hunters: *Unique-olas, Gimli the Tall Bearded Man, and Native Amaragorn.*

@noalapizza-paella3986

8 ай бұрын

The greatest of them all

0:59 Gandalf cast 'lightsaber' on them.

Legolas was truly special in this version.

No one’s talking about that weirdly long run where we’re looking straight up Legolas and Aragon’s nose for an absurdly slow mo depiction of running for your life 🤣

I can not unsee Aragorn in Tunic. MY EYES!!!!!

@PsyCastic

9 ай бұрын

Nor can Legolas's elf eyes.

That's a very short dress you're wearing there Aragorn

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

*SLAP* Aragorn: "Hentai!"

The most epic moment in this movie is when Aragorn falls lol

3:31 I make the same face when I run 😂 I jog with elfin grace

2:23 I forgot that was supposed to be a Balrog... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

can we talk about the balrog just standing completely straight and raising his hands straight up as if with no intention to move forward

Hearing AURUMAN just cracks me up every time lol

0:12 the shrooms just kick in and you think you see Aragorn.

damn ,this fellowship really hated each other

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

They could star in Middle Earth's Survivor. The most wizard source of reality TV

I love how most of the time Legolas looks weird is because if he can look down at the camera, he will go for it!

I have such a soft spot for this adaptation. So sad there was no proper sequel.

Is it me or is it ironic that the bow user looks cross eyed

@PsyCastic

10 ай бұрын

That's how you see the crosshair.