with the release of peter jackson famed lord of the ring trilogy and it be even easy to dismiss ralph bakshi 1978 animate lord of the ring film a inferior . i agree with the majority that jackson trilogy be the essential film adaptation of tolkien work and but that do not prevent me from enjoy bakshi ambitious pioneer effort . jackson have admit that he receive at least some inspiration from see bakshi film and there be some clear similarity between their adaptation . the film colorful picturesque backdrop be excellent and the score be memorable . i be for the most part satisfy by the drawing of the character . the pair of pippin and merry and eowyn and galadriel be mostly indistinguishable from each other visually and the balrog and treebeard be unimpressive and but these point do not bother me very much . however and the nazgul be aptly draw and make sufficiently eerie . the only character representation i be bother by be sam while he be make to look unbecomingly silly . this film be novel for it animation technique . in addition to hand drawn character and live actor be incorporate into the animation through rotoscoping . it be quite apparent which character be hand drawn and which be rotoscoped and but none the less i find that the film style be a novelty . the use of rotoscoped live actor for the battle scene be a good decision and help these scene turn out well . the voice acting be generally of high quality . particularly good be john hurt and who provide an authoritative voice for aragorn . aragorn isn not a favorite character of mine from the story and but back by john hurt voice he be my favorite character in this adaptation . my other favorite be william squire and whose voice be appropriately strong for gandalf . the only actor who seem inappropriate be michael scholes a sam and whose voice act be irritate and add to sam unfortunately silly image . the only other bothersome part of the voice acting be the mispronunciation of character and place name . particularly strange be the decision to frequently have saruman refer to a aruman . in produce this film and ralph bakshi expect to have the ability to produce two film . hence and this film contain about half the story and from the start of the fellowship of the ring to the end of the battle at helm deep in the two tower . the obvious implication of this be that the film story be a highly condensed version of the story from the book . i enjoy the original story and more thorough adaptation and but the liberty take to compress the story do not bother me and even the choice to leave arwen out of the story . enough of the key element of the story be in this film to keep me engage for the duration and there be even a novelty in be able to breeze through half the lord of the ring story in 132 minute . the battle scene be impressive and in particular the orc march to and battle at helm deep be tremendous . ralph bakshi version of the lord of the ring isn not perfect and no doubt a number of lord of the ring reader lament the cut to the story . however and for me the drawback of this film be minor compare to the thrill of see an effective adaptation of half of a great trilogy . my only strong lament be that i be unable to see the second part of this first great tale of the lord of the ring since bakshi be not give the budget to create a sequel .