[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

To know real disappointment is to have been there in 1978, as a fan of Bakshi's 'American Pop' and 'Fritz the Cat', with my non-Tolkienite brother and my boyfriend, walking out trying to explain why that was <I>not</I> the Lord of the Rings. Mostly I was bewildered.. what did Bakshi do wrong exactly? His version was dark bordering on bleak, without charm or humor, bloodthirsty and angry. The hobbits, his main characters, looked like idiots. It was easy to slam it, but I started rereading the LotR to see, well, what would I do better? I guess you could consider this an invitation to the "Second-guessing Peter Jackson" thread.<P>-Maril