#lord of the rings animated

[269-million]

Legolas: Master Gimli, I confess that as we idle in wait for Mithrandir to finally figure out that situation with the gates yonder, I find myself most curiously drawn to you.

Gimli: [Mentally] I'm going to keep my axe poised in plain sight, lest the Elf mistakenly believe me too eager...

[evtrained]

"Chilchuck would hate Frodo" bullshit, Chilchuck would be super fucking intensely protective of Frodo Baggins.

The ring you got for your inheritance turned out to be CURSED? And you VOLUNTEERED to WALK HUNDREDS of MILES to destroy it!? And when you got stabbed by a monster blade, the ELVES TOOK YOU AWAY FOR MONTHS and you THANKED THEM!?

No. No, I'm your father now, kid. You're joining a union, I'm negotiating your back pay for that trip. And your ongoing medical treatment, and I'm getting you EXTRA for mental anguish. Oh, the elves are offering to take you to some mysterious continent off in the West as recompense? Let's find out how many of these obscure cuss words they can decipher.

[marissasketch]

Baby chick Frodo and Gandowlf in the Shire 🐥🧙‍♂️ Prints

[heilos]

"Beware the Well of Shade, for the shadows run deep through its endless walls and twisting caverns" I've been messing around with this rig on and off for awhile, but I finally finished this little side project making a short scene in the style of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I've never been quite happy with how Starswirl the Bearded looked in the show when he finally appeared but, last year I happened upon a really cool fan design of Starswirl by the user Orin311 that I fell in love with. I decided to make a one view puppet rig this year directly based off their vector art as a surprise, complete with show style lip sync and a full walk cycle. One thing led to another in adding a background, a few illustrator texture brushes, multiple sound effects, re-purposing some old fire animation of mine and suddenly it became a whole completed scene. With such a cool wizard design, the choice for using Gandalf's voice to test the rig with was a no brainier. The background is based on the Well of Shade location in the Season 7 finale of MLP. I had a lot of fun making this and it was great practice for some future personal animation projects I wanna start next year! Credits for the character design and sound effects listed below

Starswirl fan design by Orin331 Lord of the Rings audio fire audio rocks and pebble audio magic effect audio horse walking audio

[xfhsfh]

Alright let’s try this one more time

[prokopetz]

One thing Dungeon Meshi gets right that The Lord of the Rings fumbles is the girl hobbits also have ridiculous names.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS ORIGINAL RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATION CELS

[beebsops]

ok but why did he do this...why does he act like this. Wizard behaviour.

[siktheon]

No man

Éowyn faces the Witch king of Angmar on fields of Pelenor. Inspired by Anato Finnstark.

@anato-finnstark instagram

[madame-helen]

[269-million]

Some yummy drumsticks from Bakshi's LOTR:

A compilation of what I deem some of the nicest leg shots to be found in Ralph Bakshi's "The Lord of the Rings". Starting, of course, with a couple of features of ol' Longshanks Aragorn, himself...

...And now taking a detour for the Elf on the left, playing the lute, in Rivendell:

... And now a good shot of Boromir's hamstrings:

Despite the gritty solarized footage, Legolas' limbs are getting a good profiling, here:

Back to Aragorn, again:

The Balrog of Moria seems to be rocking some shapely gams, as well:

It would be truly remiss of me to not include Aragorn's high-rise kicking, here:

I agree with Nostalgia Critic about Legolas leaning on poor Pippin like that, but he's flexing rather well while he's at it, so I guess he gets a pass for that:

Can't forget about Lord Celeborn, here:

Boromir get another couple of moments to shine:

And then Aragorn defies solarization to steal the scene, again:

Then Boromir finally gets some more good frames in (For all the screen-time his legs receive, it's hard to find really special examples, and I couldn't bring myself to show frames from when he really starts to get defeated):

But to lighten the mood again, Legolas and Aragorn get some more good attention:

And now, a moment of acknowledgement for... some guys in Eomer's clique:

My personal favourite leg moments for Aragorn and Legolas, respectively:

And here, to close it out, we actually have the frames that inspired this whole post. It turns out that most of the time, the Orcs' legs are either too thin or too hidden - though some of them still stretch well, I'd say - but from the first time I saw this scene, I've always thought that this dude's thighs have it going on:

So, there we have it. There are some other good still-frames, but Tumblr will only allow so many pictures to be in one post, and I didn't want to push it. Plus, a lot of them come from the scenes that some of these were derived from, some very close at hand, in regard to them.

The takeaway is, that the trove of hot guy-thigh material in this film is another thing that gets criminally overlooked. (You know, aside from the relentlessly present "Gondor has no pants" jokes.)

Can we all just do like Kramer and appreciate the scandalously beautiful views?

[sigmalaussene]

Guess what I did

my art

[marissasketch]

Frodo and Sam from LotR as baby chicks 🐥🍃

Prints

[kurtssingh]

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the dune where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.

"Master? I have never heard of this song."

"Oh yes, I learnt it from the uh - the planet Middle Earth."

[ultrakillblast]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)