[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Snowdog

With some of the flawed animation, I thought it rated in the vicinity of the Bakshi Lord of the Rings.

Hmm...interesting. So it doesn't have any of the campy charm of the Rankin-Bass cartoons, then?

Originally Posted by Mithadan

While it has not aged well, I liked the Bakshi version when I saw it decades ago.

I think, repeated milkings of the Giant Cow and seizure inducing flashes of the Shire aside, the Bakshi version wasn't a bad rendition prior to Rivendell.