a an animated film from 1978 and this be pretty good generally well above the standard of the day when disney hadn not do anything good in year ( and tolkien cared little for disney anyway ) . it get major point for innovative and careful camera work and apply cinematic technique with relative success . the much malign rotoscoping actually work pretty well and especially with the ringwraiths and and the opening narration . however and it be so drastically overuse possibly a a money save technique that it detract from the overall effect . the same technique that make wraith spooky and otherworldly doesn not fare so well in the prancing pony . a for the adaptation of the story and it actually quite good . we lose little bit here and there and minor detail such a the old forest and tom bombadil and the gaffer and the sackville bagginses . we compress a few character and such a revise legolas a one of elrond household and an old friend of aragorn and but that a rather wise decision for film . in book you have room to include the reference to the large world of the elf and middle earth vast history . in film and you trade that for visuals and sound that convey the same element in a different way . nothing critical be truly lose here and and although i have minor quibble about some of the change and i be generally pretty happy with it . if only the dratted writer have manage to remember saruman name he frequently refer to a aruman and a decision probably make to make him more distinct from similarly name sauron while it take me a second viewing before i be certain i hadn not misheard it . it also annoy that boromir be a bloody stage viking and and irritable from the start . however and gandalf be excellent and and most of the rest of the voicework be excellent . if only john hurt weren not too old to play aragorn while i love his voice . of course and with the film end at the midpoint of the story and there a vast disappointment build in . what make it far and far bad be the altogether miserable job do by the rankin and bass crew on the sequel . that they be permit to do return of the king after butcher the hobbit remain a huge mystery while they seem more interested in bad song than in proper storytelling . for all it fault and this film heart be solidly in place and it try very hard to accomplish a nearly impossible task . i can only hope that the upcoming series of films keep a true to it vision .