Tolkien's world (earning a lawsuit from Tolkien Enterprises, but that's another story). This same demographic was obviously early adapters of Dungeons & Dragons, which came out in 1974 and borrowed heavily from J.R.R. Direct and indirect allusions to Tolkien in the music of Led Zeppelin and Rush confirmed the cool factor for Tolkien - for shaggy college kids who liked heavy music, you couldn't get a better seal of approval than Robert Plant/Jimmy Page lyrics (see 'Ramble On' and 'Battle of Evermore'). The three Lord of the Rings books weren't published in paperback editions in the States until 1965 and steadily climbed the New York Times bestseller list. You can still find some but they're mostly incidental, I think.In the late '60s and '70s, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books were an underground phenomenon on American college campuses. So is the misdirect when both directors try to fool us into thinking the wraiths had slain the Hobbits in their beds.īeyond that, the similarities end for me. So yeah, its definitely like the Bakshi scene. As we can plainly see, he would have noted the similarity to the Bakshi scene: he shot that scene at the beginning of the shot in late 1999 and storyboarded it sooner still, which is not long after the Weinsteins made him rewatch the Bakshi film in late 1997. In the case of the Ringwraith encounter, Jackson says he was emulating a John Howe painting (that, coincidentally, is based on this Bakshi scene). There is a scene - well, a shot - that Jackson intended as an homage: its Odo Proudfoot shouting 'Proudfeet!'

More of an homage than copying, but he definitely appreciated the scene. The encounter with the Black Rider is almost identical in Jackson's version. If you are discussing something new, such as the recent Hobbit movies, please use spoiler tags as follows: (/spoiler)Īnd remember NOT to put spoilers in your post titles! If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world! Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli Snoos created by Tom Sexton LoTR - Wikipedia Page Spoiler Tags - USE THEM!

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