Lord of the Rings

[Bengalzona]

(01-25-2018, 12:29 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Yep that animated movie was what I grow up on that and my dad reading me the hobbit as a bed time story...

Was kinda disappointed the orc/goblins didn't resemble the ones from that movie lol.

there was also a LOTRs one in the same fashion but it was only the Return of the king....

There was a cell shaded type LOTR animated movie in the past as well

Yeah, I remember those as well.

For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy worked far better on the big screen than "The Hobbit" trilogy. LOTR is a much darker and epic story. The story was written for a more mature audience to grapple with more serious issues. Trying to add those darker epics into the Hobbit story line just to link up with the LOTR was not a good choice, IMO. Tolkien wrote the ideal amount of foreshadowing into the original Hobbit story. It didn't need to be elaborated on.

By the same token I think that was why the LOTR animated movies weren't as successful as the animated "Hobbit" movie. LOTR wasn't meant to be as charming and simple as "Hobbit" and that is something that that type of animation had a trouble communicating.