Pre-Jackson adaptations of LotR were honestly nice in that they were way more varied than what we saw for a long-ass time after the movies -- which, to be fair, are a great visualization in their own right, they just led to a generation of visual (and ethnic) homogeneity.
One of the old LotR animated films basically depicted Aragorn as vaguely indigenous / "Native American-y", for example.
EDIT: https://youtu.be/orLz433Cf-g maybe it's just me, I dunno. Also i forgot he was voiced by John Hurt.
something I appreciate about pre-Jackson LotR was there was a kind of unspoken agreement to make it very dreamlike and deliberately unrealistic. I always liked that kind of soft, surreal aesthetic of fantasy way more than all the gritty realistic stuff that came later. I like when things are inexplicable, like when Bilbo steals the coin purse from the trolls and it can talk.
Pre-Jackson adaptations of LotR were honestly nice in that they were way more varied than what we saw for a long-ass time after the movies -- which, to be fair, are a great visualization in their own right, they just led to a generation of visual (and ethnic) homogeneity.
One of the old LotR animated films basically depicted Aragorn as vaguely indigenous / "Native American-y", for example. EDIT: https://youtu.be/orLz433Cf-g maybe it's just me, I dunno. Also i forgot he was voiced by John Hurt.
something I appreciate about pre-Jackson LotR was there was a kind of unspoken agreement to make it very dreamlike and deliberately unrealistic. I always liked that kind of soft, surreal aesthetic of fantasy way more than all the gritty realistic stuff that came later. I like when things are inexplicable, like when Bilbo steals the coin purse from the trolls and it can talk.
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