Backgorund Research: The Films

^{After the books where produced nearly half a century later along came Peter Jackson and he was able to create a masterpiece that is The Lord of the Rings franchise that we all know and love. Sure there have been other films in between this one and the newest one but none of them compare to how good and ingenious these particular films where, and this is the reason why I have chosen to look at them in this way for my brief. I did want to look further into the background and the other films though before starting my artefact, because as a child I did in fact watch an older version of Lord of the Rings which is probably the reason I had to see the others.} 

^{The first Lord of the Rings film was a 1978 American fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. This was a direct adaptation of the trilogy and is actually very accurate which was surprising to me at first. When looking at the character then and comparing them to the actors that play them now, you can see that there are so many similarities between them, and when looking at an image of the Fellowship from this earlier film, after you have seem the new adaptations of course, you can easily tell who is who due to how they dress and how we now imagine them to look (Well except for the hobbits as they all look the same in this film.)}

^{After this film Rankin/Bass then brought out another film, entitled The Return of the King in 1980, which was obviously an adaptation from Tolkien's third book, but again followed the same animation musical influence from their version of The Hobbit. This again was a special air and ran at 98 minutes long but the feedback from the film wasn't that positive, and just by looking at the theatrical poster you can see why it might not have been a huge success.}