Actually I love this guy's voice, and I wish they did keep this in the movie

+Chris Westergaard An ancient before he even joined the dead, a voice as cold as the ring of steel, but a mind still as vital and present as the day (as a young King) that he accepted Sauron's gift.

Or when his sword sparkled & gave a ping.

"If weren't for that mut scooby doo!" - sounds like every scooby doo villain

@@marvelfanatic9535 I still think he sounds like a Scooby Doo villain.

Daayum! Minus Tirith got served.

Aw snap

"Hold on." a soldier says licking his finger and flipping open a book "I need to check what The Gondorian Manual Of Combat says to do about Orc Bards."

They look so cheerful too!

Those were some happy little frogs I bet they probably get down at pools parties and such. They have a vibe.

Good technique but their sticks

One of them is even smiling with his eyes closed, he was having such a good time just drumming 😂

An Orc showed up at my door with a drum, I told him to beat it.

@@bendover9813 Right? It actually puts a smile on my face. I have headcanon that this particular orc just loves music and always has. He was exceptionally talented in beating the drums. He'd be the one to play the drum at campfires during the various wars against Erebor, Rohan and Gondor. To hell with actual fighting. That's all he enjoyed doing was playing the drum and maybe a song or two. Overtime, he taught other orcs and maybe a few trolls how to play and they got pretty good at it. Eventually, they became the battalion war drum division that helped boost morale and strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. Today, in one of the biggest battles that was supposed to be a surefire victory for Mordor, he just joined his comrades in beating their drums, having the time of his life. However, when Theoden and the Rohirim attacked, they were scattered and many of them killed. He survived and had no choice but to put his drum and sticks down to wield his axe and fight for his life. When the Rohirim were pushed back by the death of their king, he found a few of his remaining group and they once again beat their drums to try to reboost morale for their forces. The tides did turn for them for a split moment. Unfortunately, with the arrival of Aragorn and the Corsair fleet, the remaining orc army fled and returned to Mordor. This music loving orc and his fellow drummers either lived and returned to Mordor where they would eventually die at the final Battle of the Black Gate or they were killed by Aragorn's fleet. Either way, he died still holding his drum and sticks instead of a weapon. I probably put way too much time into this silly little orc's non canon fan story. But I still choose to live by it. Lol.

I was surprised they had them gripping the sticks with traditional grip

Skelator sounds like the WK, this was made long before MOU became toys Einstein

@@jebford1500 Skeletor branded it. That is why people use certain names when it comes to a specific action or trait.

I can appreciate both mate lol. I'm chuckling at the american accent as well, doesn't harm it in the least though

Witch-king then said no he-man can defeat me!

Because it is Alan Oppenheimer LONG before he got the role of Skeletor.

Right? It actually puts a smile on my face. I have headcanon that this particular orc just loves music and always has. He was exceptionally talented in beating the drums. He'd be the one to play the drum at campfires during the various wars against Erebor, Rohan and Gondor. To hell with actual fighting. That's all he enjoyed doing was playing the drum and maybe a song or two. Overtime, he taught other orcs and maybe a few trolls how to play and they got pretty good at it. Eventually, they became the battalion war drum division that helped boost morale and strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. Today, in one of the biggest battles that was supposed to be a surefire victory for Mordor, he just joined his comrades in beating their drums, having the time of his life. However, when Theoden and the Rohirim attacked, they were scattered and many of them killed. He survived and had no choice but to put his drum and sticks down to wield his axe and fight for his life. When the Rohirim were pushed back by the death of their king, he found a few of his remaining group and they once again beat their drums to try to reboost morale for their forces. The tides did turn for them for a split moment. Unfortunately, with the arrival of Aragorn and the Corsair fleet, the remaining orc army fled and returned to Mordor. This music loving orc and his fellow drummers either lived and returned to Mordor where they would eventually die at the final Battle of the Black Gate or they were killed by Aragorn's fleet. Either way, he died still holding his drum and sticks instead of a weapon. I probably put way too much time into this silly little orc's non canon fan story. But I still choose to live by it. Lol.

@@greywillowgaming2366 sounds like an orc from Shadow of War.

​@@greywillowgaming2366 I know I'm a year late, but that story was beautiful

Just like he does in the book.

His powers kinda look like this in the books, his words cannot be disobeyed .

@Iain Chambers he wasn't famous for his dialogues among idiots like you I guess?

@Iain Chambers nope just realist

@Red Wombat Tolkien wasn’t famous for good dialogue...what? "'You cannot enter here,' said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. 'Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!' The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter. 'Old fool!' he said. 'Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!' And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade. Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.” ----Return of the King (J.R.R Tolkien)

Haha

yeah true hahaha!

XD XD XD

Robert G. It's like "Fuck you Sauron!! Fuck you Mordor!!"

Lmfao

Bilbo Swaggins it’s a fair point... though they do get credit for doing the Gandalf meets the Witch King rather than punting like Stephen Jackson did.

Check this out - tried to take the brilliance of John Huston reading Tolkien dialogue and match it with the visual of the Peter Jackson movie: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e9agZMip0b-4qGw.html

The Witch King is just doing his transformation sequence. Wait until you see his magical girl outfit.

The Witch King sounds like Skeletor. Like he got locked in Toys R Us indefinitely and somehow acquired a Ring of Power to play around with.

Dude. What is the thing drumming in the center at the 1:27 mark? Its not an orc, its drawn completely differently. It has the same skin tone as the film depicts for the trolls but it is not big enough to be a troll. The books mention " half troll men" but this film certainly wouldnt pick up on such a passing line as that was.

And uruks

@@jakusers4724 ah, you think they are Uruks? I hadnt thought of that. I doubt the animators would be that knowledgeable on the original texts. But it is the only answer Ive gotten and thus the defacto best.

No phones, just orcs having a good time!

That orc was having so much fun! XD

Takes a certain level of commitment to be evil

Cute right? 😍

:)

You got to love what you do...

Tolkien*

You still can’t spell Tolkien though

@@ihabhatim5825 He actually did it first time. But screwed it up at the second part.

I know that feeling and memory. I saw the animated version of The Hobbit when I was little in elementary school.

The kids version of this in book form was my introduction to Tolkien. About six to seven months later I read Two Towers as my first full length unabridged version of Tolkien (the story took some time to figure out that way.)

Maybe a dance off or battle of the DJ's would have saved so many lives and avoided so much destruction through out Middle Earth. Funny to see another TW channel here 😁

If there's a whip *whip crack* There's a way *epic harmonized voices of an army on a march* If there's a whip *whip crack* There's a way

They used men's choirs to try to make the orcs scary, but only succeeded in making them sound bad-ass.

Gondor solder: I think we're doomed! Jim: Nah. Unless they got any big, giant wolf's head hundred-foot long battering ram, I think we're OK. [The thud of the Mûmakil footsteps as they approach] Gondor solder: Ah, Jim, [points at the Grond] giant wolf's head hundred-foot long battering ram. XD

-I guess we gonna die -...yeah whatever

They have chainmail tights. No need to worry even the main gate is breached

Each has its own merit; here I agree-half of the beauty is in the animation. The other half of the glorious and unforgettable pageantry here is in the spoken word!

Not anywhere on the level? It takes its liberties too, but this R/B adaptation is FAR more accurate and entertaining than Jackson's RotK.

@@Retrorevelations in your opinion...

​@@Retrorevelations Yep. This is pure Romance: the supernatural saliva on Grond's third swing, the smash cut to Gandalf/Shadowfax standing calmly in a sea of fleeing men, etc. People can't see the solid dramatic foundation here because they get distracted by some of the dated stylistic elements (like the witch king's voice). Comparatively, most of PJ's Minas Tirith scenes are dramatically inert. That's not to say that RB is a better overall adaptation; in fact, it's not really an adaptation at all, but a kid's tv special that captures some of the highlights of ROTK through a series of vignettes and musical numbers. But the dramatic energy in a lot of these vignettes reminds us how much potential was left on the table in PJ's ROTK.

LOL out loud. It's far better than Jackson's woke mess.

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and then anime was perfected almost 3 decades later by Two and A Half Men

Amen.

Why do you say "Amen"? That's a word used with religious purpose.

Seriously.

>anime r u fking kidding me.

What is this movie called? I personally can't find it through researching the songs and characters

1980

I dearly wish we had gotten this scene in the Jackson films, instead of Gandalf The White cowering and broken before the witch king. Sir Ian would have smashed this scene.

lol he indeed looks like its living its best life

or that orc bustin out some crazy moves @1:29 on the left

i think the witch king has the same voice actor as skelator.

Ha ha 😂 🤣 😆 😄 😅 😆lol 😆

a career*

my god man!! it IS better. those films are CGI crap man this is art. high art. it ain't watered down, commercial shit.

it's better in some ways

JL Waddey You're insane

TheSilverPhoenix100 because it is better

I mean, I think in some aspects that it is, but at the same time, it lacked a lot of things Jackson's films did. Of course, this is partly because this was made in the 80's and animation wasn't as good as it was now, but it's because of this that the groundwork for the LotR films would be laid. Mistakes were made on both parts, but both brought valuable ideas unseen in the others. I think they can both be appreciated.

Jackson butchered the scene at the gate.

I wish that was kept in the movies

Heavy on the Christian symbols

True, Christian symbols, but wasn't Tolkin and CS Lewis friends?

@@jlahuis yes they were good friends. Unlike Lewis Tolkein was less into allegorical stuff and more into what he called "applicability". The fact that the ring bearers 33 yrs old is a bit heavy on allegory though!

Is this an original extract?

@@sigmundfreude4088 Indeed. There is a quite excellent audiobook version on Spotify right now. This part read aloud is chilling.

Sweet.

@@sigmundfreude4088 this is from my edition of return of the king

Jesus the movie did this better, thats so God damn boring they dont even show a battle

I think he’s an okay Gandalf

He's actually speaking in the Black Tongue of Mordor so...yeah

@@sith50 maybe he couldn't hear it properly?

Because he kinda is. I think Gandalf is older than the Witch-King, if memory serves. He's a Maiar, after all.

Gandalf is LotR's version of an angel: a direct messenger of the Valar (the gods of the setting). Nothing can really go toe-to-toe with him except for Sauron himself or the Balrog.

Amen. I'm 46 and the nostalgia gets me right in the feels.

I get what you mean, but man that Peter Jackson trilogy really does it for me. At least none of us younger viewers enjoyed Rings of Power (hopefully)

Rankin Bass hit it out of the park with this and especially the Hobbit. They didn't always get it right, but they knew tolkein. Huston as Gandalf was so, so good. I love McKellan, but R&B introduced me to Tolkein and got me to read all the books and become obsessed

The nostalgia has made old viewers too complacent in their demands for imagery.

I like the surreal, dream/nightmarish quality. It leaves room for the imagination that was so sparked for readers and ponderers.

Until he laughs and speaks 😂😂😂

tbh, I think his cloak and cape looks cooler here than in the peter jackson movie. And the symbol of Sauron's Eye on his armor looks epic.

@@sidious_sheev_senateyeah but the armor in the Peter Jackson films gives a more dark king look but I see where your coming from

they are more true to the arms and armor

yeah... that old yankee accent, howdy... just like in the book :)

Like the voice of the Devil himself...

Suddenly he turned into Skeletor !

He sounds like the witch doctor fro 'Scooby Doo, Where Are You?'

He was using the Black speech of Mordor while talking to his army

whats scarier a large muscular biker with a deep voice or a gibbering clown.

Then Jackson made his garbage.

@@fjccommish you can't seriously have watched this clip and PJ's film and say that the film is garbage.

@@BeedrillYanyan PJ's film is garbage. Frodo was a damsel in distress in PJ's films. Awful.

​@@fjccommish go and make a better LotR then,if you are that smart

Same story for me

myah! silly fools!

Dr. Yes I think some of the animators from thunder cats did work on this.

Because it was!

He was even Aragorn in the Ralph Bakshi movie

John Hurt did Aragorns voice in the bakshi animated lot. That would make it kinda weird for me.

Meh, the Jackson Grond seemed a little more authentic to the Silmarion and Sauron's mace...

Absolutely. Not just the design, but the way the attacks are edited.

Same voice actor perhaps?

This is the version straight from the Book the Return of the King. Peter Jackson's interpretation sucks.

Sure and thats why it made 1.1 billion

Justin Bieber also sells millions of albums, doesn't make him any good.

"Peter Jackson's interpretation sucks." damn you millennials suck... PJ's LOTR trilogy is amazing, you kids are too spoiled.

this one is closer to the books than Peter Jackson's films are

nope, in our school, it is an example of no animate a movie ^^

This animation even in the 1970s was horrible for it's time. It's definitely an example oh how Not to animate a movie

Joshua Runt not as bad as Filmation. Though they did have good stories and background scenes.

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Yeah, I absolutely consider this and The Hobbit a form of anime, even if a lot of people may disagree. These movies just had a different, unique art style than what modern anime fans are used to.

Lmaoooo good one