An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings

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• FO

  @FoldingIdeas · 5 years ago · pinned

  It is very funny that I've received multiple "Pater Jackass" comments from people insisting that they're above petty fandom sniping.

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• SS

  @SSmotzer · 5 years ago

  Here&apos;s one of my favorite quotes about LotRs<br><br>“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.&quot; ― John Rogers

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• LE

  @Leafeon56 · 5 years ago (edited)

  My mom is a huge LoTR fan, and was a big member of OneRingNet and the official fan club during the heyday of the movies. She was a very very active member of the forums and discussion groups. I just called and asked her &quot;do Balrogs have wings&quot; and her eyes literally glazed over. She said in a very defeated tone: &quot;Balrogs can have wings if you want them to.&quot; <br><br>Balrogs can have a little wing. As a treat.

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• JU

  @justme0910 · 5 years ago

  I feel sorry for Bakshi&apos;s struggles while working on Spider-Man, but &quot;My coke dealer left me&quot; has got to be the most sad/hilarious sentence in the history of the English language.

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• AM

  @ameliabrittain158 · 3 years ago

  There is literally a smoke shop in my town called “Wizards” with the poster for the film in its window, and yeah it’s literally just owned by an old stoner whose young mind was blown by wizards, and it’s just a whole thing.

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• FP

  @fpedrosa2076 · 5 years ago

  Oh man, Bakshi. I have a lot of respect for the guy, he helped women and minorities get jobs as animators at a time when Disney and most other companies would only have them doing other, &apos;lesser&apos; work, if that. I got some stories of him and he was really progressive for the time, but he couldn&apos;t direct a good commercial product to save his life. Way more of an artist than a businessman, which sucks because animation can be such an expensive business.

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• EV

  @evanswart480 · 5 years ago

  &quot;Why does the rotoscoping look so bad?&quot;<br><br>&quot;Because it was real&quot;

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• SK

  @skylerrehbach6689 · 5 years ago

  &quot;If Balrog have wings, why couldn&apos;t they just fly the ring into Mordor?&quot; is my new favorite quote from you.

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• KA

  @katharsisravynturbes · 1 year ago

  I’m delighted to discover today that Ralph Bakshi has a Twitter and uses it to diss AI “Art”- king shit !!! ❤️❤️❤️

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• IA

  @ianbionic · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s a uniquely Canadian accent that doesn&apos;t pronounce the L in &quot;Gandalf&quot;, but does pronounce the L in &quot;both&quot;

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• EL

  @Electroporcupine · 5 years ago

  Its such a strange coincidence that both major adaptations of TLOTR were directed by men whose previous films were notoriously gory and explicit cult films.

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• AL

  @alberthwang2900 · 4 years ago

  Man, that line, &quot;There&apos;s no hope!&quot; &quot;Then we must do without hope!&quot; is freaking metal.

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