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Nightmares of “Frodo of the Nine Fingers” still haunt me at night. They even turned it into a musical, for God’s sake. It was made by the same team that had done the lackluster 1977 animated version of “The Hobbit,” and they apparently changed gears when they heard Bakshi’s LOTR saga would not be completed. The 1978 animated film, which ended suddenly a little more than halfway through the novel - even with skipping large volumes of material - was sorta/kinda “finished” with the release the following year of a TV movie, “The Return of the King.”īakshi was not actually involved in the second film, which picked up at roughly the same point his left off but featured a completely different voice cast. (Some might say a rut.) Exploring Ralph Bakshi’s fantasy animation rekindled thoughts of his version of “The Lord of the Rings,” which led me back to the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy of the early 2000s.
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