![]() ![]() As such, Bakshi’s brave aesthetics have carved a special place in the history of story-telling. Indeed, Bakshi’s creative choices have only been further reproduced in every version attempted since, including especially Peter Jackson’s academy award-winning film trilogy, brought to the screen decades later. His epic animated adaptation of Lord of the Rings, cut in half and never completed, establishes the characters, visual styles, and updated tone that most of us associate with the fantasy epic. Before 1978 no one had the guts to even imagine what this might look like.īakshi was a veteran director of semi-pornographic animation for a decade prior, bringing many cult comics to the screen, and even his own dark urban visions, including Heavy Traffic (1973). Rather, the story and characters we know today were crafted by the cartoon pornographer Ralph Bakshi in decadent 1978.įigure 1: The wizard Gandalf faces the demonic Balrog, deep in the mines of Moria. Tolkien, during the lofty war-torn 1940s. Many people are under the mistaken impression that the Lord of the Rings was created by that shrewish Oxford don of linguistics, J.R.R. ![]()
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