Hey, it's me. said:

Growing up, LOTR was always the animated cartoon from the 70's.

Life doesn't get much better than watching this moment does it...

PJ's LOTR took so much inspiration from this masterpiece. So much so that there is a guy on YouTube who has FanEdied footage from PJ's trilogy to match Bakshi's soundtrack, pretty clever stuff. Some of it is so close it's spooky, some of it (When PJ didn't actually film those scenes) is a little rougher but still very clever.

I hope one day that like the OT we'll get Ralph's original unaltered Movie = or ROUM for short lol

I can't stand the re-dubbed end from the post PJ VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray releases.

If this had come out before Star Wars it would have stormed the Box Office and guarenteed a sequel. But coming a year later it did good business but audiences probably wanted blasters and droids. Spirit wise, the cracking pace of Bakshi's version is pure Star Wars. Bakshi's fellowship are already leaving Rivendell before Jackson's even got Frodo out of Bag End.