• Better soundtrack
  • More likable characters
  • No CGI
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    3 days ago

    Frodo of the nine fingers

    Frodo of the nine fingers

    Frodo of the nine fingers

    And the Ring of Doom

    EDIT: that’s actually from 1980 The Return of the King, by the same studio, and also pretty awesome and better than the live-action counterparts.

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      3 days ago

      EDIT: that’s actually from 1980 The Return of the King, by the same studio, and also pretty awesome and better than the live-action counterparts.

      Another fun fact about those two movies: they were animated by a Japanese studio called Topcraft. Topcraft would later animate another movie called Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and shortly after was renamed Studio Ghibli after a change in ownership.

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        That’s awesome, the Ghibli aesthetic has always reminded me of the old Hobbit but I had no idea they were from some of the same people!

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      1980 The Return of the King […] better than the live-action counterparts.

      Ah, there it is. The real unpopular opinion is always in the comments.

      HARD disagree. Jackson’s orij trij is a modern masterpiece, and the 1980 animated one is…well, it’s something, I guess.