The Lord Of The Rings - But It's Just Legolas Being Unique For 4 Minutes And 15 Seconds

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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    One day I had a wet dream of me uploading this compilation of Legolas from Ralph Bakshi's The Lord Of The Rings. Forget about Peter Jackson's Legolas, let's hear it from our happy pillow biter elf who is always ready to help his friends and make contorted faces. Enjoy
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  • @dragonlady266
    @dragonlady266 Год назад +6976

    I love how Legolas looks like an Oblivion character.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +565

      BY AZURA! BY AZURA! BY AZURA!

    • @mynona2491
      @mynona2491 Год назад +213

      Oh god he's that yellow haired fanboy mf that got send to death in every possible way known to Tamriel

    • @00Kuja00
      @00Kuja00 Год назад +78

      There is a reason behind his hair. Around the 70s it was not clear which shape the elves had so every artwork kept them hidden under hair. Later it became clear what Tolkien had in mind, I think through some letters they found.

    • @peterkim3370
      @peterkim3370 Год назад +6

      @@PsyCasticAzura the good witch

    • @dragonlady266
      @dragonlady266 Год назад +31

      ​@00Kuja00 I was also referencing the eyes and general head shape, but that's a neat fact though.

  • @jaevulen
    @jaevulen Год назад +4339

    i know this is about legolas but Gandalf just emerging from the trees with a blanket over his head cracked me up so bad

    • @Rumade
      @Rumade Год назад +289

      The costuming for this version is much more accessible for fans to replicate

    • @David_Fellner
      @David_Fellner Год назад +125

      Cracking with laughter is exactly the right reaction to most of the shenanigans that goes on in these movies.

    • @ThibautVDP
      @ThibautVDP 11 месяцев назад +41

      Just gandalf pulling a jerk prank on them!

    • @TheGoIsWin21
      @TheGoIsWin21 11 месяцев назад +106

      And he's like... 12 feet away. And everyone just sort of watches him walk closer while Gimli screams

    • @violet-trash
      @violet-trash 11 месяцев назад +47

      "I'm in disguise, this way no one will recognise me!"

  • @rmisionero
    @rmisionero Год назад +3916

    1:48 Legolas' attempt to smile at lesser creature, but in his mind his elven supremacy burns with the desire to shut the mutant up.

    • @MusicByKsyusha
      @MusicByKsyusha Год назад +309

      most accurate comment I have ever read

    • @princessofthecape2078
      @princessofthecape2078 Год назад +218

      Accurate assessment. I like Sam in this rendition, but he is NOTHING like the contemplative Samwise in the books.

    • @Thecoolestgalonthebeach
      @Thecoolestgalonthebeach Год назад +82

      I thought his name was sandwich

    • @Shaigrovil
      @Shaigrovil Год назад +47

      hahahahahahahah take my upvote, you made me laugh. I'm making a meme with this scene.

    • @sirbig8292
      @sirbig8292 Год назад +25

      Reminds me of the smiling scene from Terminator 2.

  • @Akatsukileader9
    @Akatsukileader9 Год назад +1432

    Legolas is so disgusted by Potato Sam, even if he tries to smile through it. I love it.

    • @heroicjourney2508
      @heroicjourney2508 8 месяцев назад +16

      His eye came out for a second 😂😂😂

    • @xrp589baby
      @xrp589baby 2 месяца назад

      PO-TAY-TOES!!!...boil em!..mash em!...stick em in a stew!!

  • @kornrok1
    @kornrok1 Год назад +3962

    "If we lose even a little time, we lose Frodo" said Legolas while leisurely strolling along after pausing to share a word with Sam.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +316

      IKR. With 5 Black Riders travelling at the speed of Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

    • @MrMegamike2k
      @MrMegamike2k Год назад +191

      It's because he doesn't give a shit.😅😂

    • @subliteral
      @subliteral Год назад +54

      @@MrMegamike2k That would explain a lot.

    • @Thecoolestgalonthebeach
      @Thecoolestgalonthebeach Год назад +96

      Just having a casual conversation while frodo dies, very funny.

    • @Byssbod
      @Byssbod Год назад +19

      Did they meet Legolas way earlier in this adaption?

  • @Thrakerzog
    @Thrakerzog Год назад +7955

    The pants-less Native American Aragorn just ties the whole movie together 🤣🤣🤣

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +615

      If only his pants were tied up.

    • @peterkim3370
      @peterkim3370 Год назад +340

      @@PsyCasticif only he wore pants

    • @ThePUNISHEDBacon
      @ThePUNISHEDBacon Год назад +305

      I hate to sound like the 🤓meme, but the outfit is more akin to a Late Roman Tunic.

    • @handpan4695
      @handpan4695 Год назад +135

      ​@@ThePUNISHEDBacon Got it Italian kilts

    • @KopperNeoman
      @KopperNeoman Год назад +49

      American Indians don't call themselves that.

  • @computernoise2209
    @computernoise2209 Год назад +3483

    Now I understand the inspiration behind Orlando Bloom intensely and aggressively existing while in the background of Jackson's films.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +506

      "We are proud to pay homage to Bakshi once more."

    • @mattrasp1615
      @mattrasp1615 Год назад +54

      It’s been a minute since I’ve read but no shot Legolas met them between Bree and Rivendell right?

    • @slappyjones2136
      @slappyjones2136 Год назад +253

      @@mattrasp1615 the merged the character Glorfindel and Legolas. In the book, Legolas doesn’t make an appearance until Rivendell and Glorfindel is the one who helps Frodo escape the riders. In this adaptation, Legolas takes on both roles. Which makes more sense tbh but Tolkien loves to build out his universe

    • @mattrasp1615
      @mattrasp1615 Год назад +21

      @@slappyjones2136 ahh i was skipping thru I figured they definitely just had glorfindel playing his part and honestly had that in my
      Memory of this adaptation. Makes you appreciate PJ even more

    • @slappyjones2136
      @slappyjones2136 Год назад +122

      @@mattrasp1615 and PJ swapped Glorfindel for Arwen! Glorfindel got the shaft in the adaptations, but I guess it’s Tolkien’s fault for not making him do anything else in the books.

  • @riftvallance2087
    @riftvallance2087 Год назад +4430

    I love that during the movie they occasionally decide the animating is just too hard and give up.

    • @CosmicSoul333
      @CosmicSoul333 Год назад +43

      😂

    • @lemon9212
      @lemon9212 Год назад +355

      I legit think they ran out of budget lol

    • @NowhereBeats
      @NowhereBeats 11 месяцев назад +389

      There was an anime in the 70s where for a few scenes it was just real people with anime heads super imposed on to them. It always cracked me up.

    • @exogenesus6841
      @exogenesus6841 11 месяцев назад +212

      It looks like the entire film is rotoscoped

    • @codyrichards5980
      @codyrichards5980 11 месяцев назад +131

      ​@@exogenesus6841 I always heard the style refered to as "heavily rotoscoped." It's so uncanny.

  • @miles2593
    @miles2593 Год назад +1223

    “pippin and merry may be dead by now. we don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️” and then the “one of them anyway” after gimli rejoices about them being alive is absolutely insane and i love him

    • @miles2593
      @miles2593 Год назад +57

      WHY IS HE SO AGGRESSIVE IM GOING INSANE

    • @towelgirl21
      @towelgirl21 Год назад +102

      "There will be no more signs!" *jogs away frustratedly*

    • @error-try-again-later
      @error-try-again-later Год назад +63

      His face always looks so mildly disdainful and it's amazing 💀

    • @s.e.e455
      @s.e.e455 Год назад +24

      He’s just very jaded from war and matter-of-fact, he doesn’t sugar coat or mince words.

    • @s.e.e455
      @s.e.e455 Год назад +13

      @@towelgirl21I interpreted it as, “There will be no more signs because we will find them quickly,” but perhaps I was being optimistic 😂

  • @Hydroxoid
    @Hydroxoid Год назад +1508

    Love how even in their animated forms they all still have the big 70’s hair lol

    • @jesserichardson8116
      @jesserichardson8116 Год назад +115

      Everyone in this movie is either edited live footage or live footage that was traced over. Very likely that’s the very hair the actors had! Tree beard is the only character in the movie that is completely animated independent of a live reference

    • @Soviless99
      @Soviless99 Год назад +12

      except gimli

    • @cromwell300
      @cromwell300 Год назад +8

      Well except for Gimli lol

    • @00Kuja00
      @00Kuja00 Год назад +15

      At the time it was not clear what ear shape the elves had, so every artwork had them hidden under hair. It later became clear, I think through the many letters Tolkien had sent to his friends about his work.

    • @BananaPhoPhilly
      @BananaPhoPhilly Год назад +9

      @@jesserichardson8116 I love rotoscoping

  • @richtomchuk1584
    @richtomchuk1584 Год назад +665

    Boromir has no pants. Boromir needs no pants.

  • @FreeTibetFTW
    @FreeTibetFTW Год назад +1858

    I love this sassy Legolas, the way he quickly snapped and delivered "Then you know nothing in Gondor" was hilarious for me xD

    • @acecondor289
      @acecondor289 Год назад +107

      The Sass is because is he played by C3P0

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +182

      Boromir: "One does not simply walk into Mordor..."
      Legolas: "THEN YOU KNOW NOTHING IN MORDOR!"

    • @Lemuel928
      @Lemuel928 Год назад +11

      What about Edgy Live Action Legolas?

    • @faleilham8334
      @faleilham8334 Год назад +9

      Proceeds to step on the Hobbits

    • @houston1342
      @houston1342 Год назад +7

      ​@@Lemuel928 Edgy?

  • @Rebecca_Violet
    @Rebecca_Violet Год назад +1198

    "What a people you dwarves are for hiding things. On the gates of your most wonderous, ancient kingdom you write, 'Speak, friend, and enter,' and no spell in any language can open the door."
    I LOVE this line.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +119

      One of my favourite lines of his, and after the door to Moria is opened.

    • @Thecoolestgalonthebeach
      @Thecoolestgalonthebeach Год назад +53

      I love how this movie ended before frodo destroyed the ring

    • @Filbi
      @Filbi Год назад +39

      Gimli: "Yeah, you got me there."

    • @vaxrvaxr
      @vaxrvaxr Год назад +9

      ​@@ThecoolestgalonthebeachTrue to the book, at least for the most of us

    • @Wavemaninawe
      @Wavemaninawe 11 месяцев назад +9

      Gandalf - Oh, Gandalf... you old fool! Heh heh! * speaks 'friend' in Elvish, and enters *
      Legolas - Well, shit... I guess the joke is on me.

  • @Bendesho
    @Bendesho Год назад +266

    3:14 Aragorn so happy you'd think that was his first time winning a fight

  • @timhurlburt4506
    @timhurlburt4506 Год назад +551

    Legolas's skills include, archery, tracking, speaking to trees, and delivering clunky dialogue while chewing on his own lips.

  • @yamidelacroix6729
    @yamidelacroix6729 Год назад +563

    The way he looked at Sam and rested his hand on him while patronisingly saying 'Sam, No resting can help your mr.frodo now.' Like,he legit sounded like he sighed Sam's name like a fed up parent and followed it with a tone that said 'you're an utter fuckwit but you have a good heart at least.' While explaining how Lord Elrond will help absolutely slayed me.

    • @magnuskallas
      @magnuskallas 10 месяцев назад

      He sure is a testament to a simple passive aggressive worm trying to sound deep.

    • @gianna526
      @gianna526 Месяц назад

      I know I loved how patronizing he was 😂 that's how I would talk to a toddler who doesn't understand grandma just died

  • @wm6578
    @wm6578 Год назад +255

    I really love how whimsically uncanny this Legolas is

  • @lildeerling1992
    @lildeerling1992 11 месяцев назад +216

    I like the idea of elves having a uncanny appearance to them and not just being humans with pointy ears.

    • @gaebren9021
      @gaebren9021 5 месяцев назад +4

      Yes, like his eyes.

  • @MysticCabbage
    @MysticCabbage Год назад +201

    I know it's a Legolas compilation, but I wish it went just 10 seconds more to get my favorite Gimli bit!
    "So all you had to do was say friend and enter"
    [Gimli lets out a world weary sigh]
    "Those were happier times..."

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +13

      We all would like more with our camp Elffy Friend. I wish he had interacted more with others. He did more so than Bloom.

  • @thorneer
    @thorneer Год назад +462

    Wild that Legolas is voiced by C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels.

    • @christopherhelton6999
      @christopherhelton6999 Год назад +1

      "Oh! Oh, I say! Gimli! Help! Oh, you miserable, stupid dwarf!"

    • @matthewosterman9030
      @matthewosterman9030 Год назад +38

      No wonder his voice is so nice

    • @zmani4379
      @zmani4379 Год назад +3

      I think this is the only other role I remember him for

    • @seanj6310
      @seanj6310 Год назад +14

      And this film was released a year after Star Wars (1977). He sounds so much younger...

    • @HAMWICH90
      @HAMWICH90 11 месяцев назад +5

      THANK YOU was trying to figure out where else I'd heard him!

  • @ilikechoccymilk5605
    @ilikechoccymilk5605 Год назад +1935

    This Legolas has biblically accurate angel vibes. He's creepy and weird.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +119

      Who may have a supply elf spliff.

    • @subliteral
      @subliteral Год назад +158

      I'm telling you I feel the same. He's otherworldy here and slightly uncanny. I love this version just for that.

    • @KlutzyNinjaKitty
      @KlutzyNinjaKitty Год назад +153

      I think it’s because his features here are slightly warped. His eyes are close together and are upturned in an odd way, his nose is very narrow and pointy, and they animated his mouth in a very odd way when compared to everyone else. Combine that with the very human movements (because it’s rotoscoped) it makes him kinda uncanny. Which is fitting for an elf, tbh.

    • @happyllama1160
      @happyllama1160 Год назад +83

      I love this!!! Elves are meant to be terrifying yet beautiful and wise. I wish they leant more into this in the movies, I thought the rankin bass version did well at it too

    • @unikeko96
      @unikeko96 Год назад +8

      ​@@KlutzyNinjaKittyMy eyes are like that 😮

  • @merlinquark5659
    @merlinquark5659 Год назад +1200

    Weird seeing gimli as tall as legolas 😂

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +163

      Nah, Legolas is a wood elf (Bosmer) By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!

    • @lang1301
      @lang1301 Год назад +12

      @@PsyCastic dude the game you are refering to came out 13 years ago its crazy

    • @suggiethames9870
      @suggiethames9870 Год назад +42

      Yeah, what the fuck was up with that. it is ANIMATION COULDN'T THEY HAVE JUST DRAWN HIM SHORTER?

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +58

      @@lang1301 I was referencing Oblivion, which was 17 years ago. Like the time it took Gandalf to research the ring and travel.

    • @sudanemamimikiki1527
      @sudanemamimikiki1527 Год назад +38

      @@suggiethames9870 its rotoscoped animation. idk if the hobbit are rotoscoped too..or if its children playing the characters

  • @lordfreerealestate8302
    @lordfreerealestate8302 Год назад +626

    Are we not going to talk about the fact that Aragorn isn't wearing any pants? Is he wearing booty shorts or just a miniskirt?

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore Год назад +214

      He shat himself on Weathertop and Pippin discreetly lent him a pair of hobbit trousers.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +196

      It's too feel the breeze between the knees.

    • @lucretiamacevil362
      @lucretiamacevil362 Год назад +241

      Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants.

    • @SusanDelgado1177
      @SusanDelgado1177 Год назад +22

      ​@@Elcoreyour comment made me lmao, get a coughing fit & nearly shit myself too. Good job, sir

    • @CatharticCreation
      @CatharticCreation Год назад +86

      aragorn in booty shorts are what the peter jackson films are missing tbh

  • @wavion2
    @wavion2 Год назад +1194

    In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Legolas is special. In this Lord of the Rings Legolas is _special_ .

    • @lazylazymule
      @lazylazymule Год назад

      Some of the animation is so bad he looks like he has downs syndrome. It's pretty terrible.

    • @Treopse
      @Treopse Год назад +40

      Literally what I thought😂

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +98

      Both elfsesss are precious!

    • @catsupempire3920
      @catsupempire3920 Год назад +15

      ableist

    • @Steir12
      @Steir12 Год назад +39

      Everybody is sort of special in this version.

  • @Pillowman9
    @Pillowman9 Год назад +643

    So interesting that all three versions have a different character arriving post nazgul blade scene; Glorfindel in the books, Arwen in the movie and Legolas in the cartoon.

    • @kornrok1
      @kornrok1 Год назад +20

      Spoken like Eomer.

    • @00Kuja00
      @00Kuja00 Год назад +71

      I don't know if you can call the books a "version" since they are the fundament.

    • @julespulp214
      @julespulp214 Год назад +81

      ​@@00Kuja00 yet this part is a bit tricky for adaptations to deal with, since Glorfindel only shows up here and never again. It works very well for the book's worldbuilding (which is fundamental like you said), but on a limited screetime it feels completely missplaced.

    • @paulsarnik8506
      @paulsarnik8506 Год назад +7

      I forgot Glor' got shafted in the Bakshi 'toon too! 🤓😎✌🏻

    • @Painocus
      @Painocus Год назад +21

      @@julespulp214 There is also that Tolkien put him there still thinking that LotR and the Silmarillion would be published togheter as the publisher originally promised him.

  • @jaceyking5015
    @jaceyking5015 Год назад +1108

    "What do you hear?"
    "Nothing." Dramatic turn towards camera. "But I _feel."_
    Greatest moment on film. Should have won an Oscar.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +84

      Legolas: "Nothing...but I can't feel my face."

    • @Aileil
      @Aileil 11 месяцев назад +5

      That really is gold.

  • @BetterCallThall
    @BetterCallThall Год назад +178

    watching legolas drop his arrow and cry out in dismay like in the book was a weirdly satisfying touch

    • @Contraltissimo
      @Contraltissimo Год назад +24

      Dang it I want to like this comment more than once. For how goofy and clunky this movie can be.... you can tell it's still full of a lot of love for the source material.

  • @lightborn9071
    @lightborn9071 Год назад +430

    I always found this movie extremely interesting. It looks so... special, like as if someone just had the bare minimum of money and used every trick.
    Also, Boromir is a Viking, Aragorn is a native American, Legolas is an Elve and Elrond is Julius Ceasar, now how do you find that?

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +61

      I find it interesting that the animation team conjure their style of the characters. Even if they are not faithful to the book.

    • @Abilliph
      @Abilliph Год назад +11

      *Caesar

    • @93bencomo
      @93bencomo 11 месяцев назад +15

      The backgrounds weren't made in a botched manner. The film has a lot of different hand-painted landscape fores. This type of details that usually go unnoticed, but where you can see the care with which they made it.

    • @locnar1
      @locnar1 11 месяцев назад +33

      Tolkein's daughter consulted on character design, and told Bakshi what the different Middle Earth cultures were inspired by. it may have been taken too literally but at least they asked a family member.

    • @SysterYster
      @SysterYster 11 месяцев назад +10

      I think the movies were pretty expensive to make. They filmed everything, then painted over it, frame by frame by hand. That's why they didn't make the second movie, it cost too much and didn't sell well enough. Certainly gave it a unique look though.

  • @Xadov
    @Xadov Год назад +275

    Gimli: “They’re alive!”
    Legolas: “psh, one of them, I guess. Damn.”

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +60

      "Pippin and Mary may be dead by now, we don't know (Nor do I give a flying fuck)"

    • @Gee-xb7rt
      @Gee-xb7rt Год назад +27

      I think you have to remember Legolas is a young man of 3000 yrs old, his view on mortality is a bit different.

  • @Rekaert
    @Rekaert Год назад +666

    It still has a certain charm to it. Shame they didn't complete the full book.

    • @MacedonZero
      @MacedonZero Год назад +43

      I read once that the plan was initially to do return of the king as a separate movie, but they never got around to it.
      Possibly by design. Ralph Bakshi was forced to do this movie against his will, so he may have done everything he could to delay/prevent the sequel

    • @00Kuja00
      @00Kuja00 Год назад +13

      Agree. I first saw this back in 95 and I love their take on Sauron and the more dark atmosphere overall.

    • @Novusod
      @Novusod Год назад +16

      There was an animated Return of the King but it was done by a different Studio that being Rankin-Bass. They were the same studio that did the animated Hobbit (1977).

    • @00Kuja00
      @00Kuja00 Год назад +2

      @@Novusod They look really bad.

    • @Rekaert
      @Rekaert Год назад +3

      @@Novusod If I recall that was the one where the animation style was very close to A Flight of Dragons, and where the Witch King sounded like Skeletor from the He-Man series. I don't 'think' I've ever seen the full thing, but my suggested feed keeps getting clips from time to time.

  • @anastasiaw594
    @anastasiaw594 11 месяцев назад +74

    The uniqueness of Legolas here is in when one moment I admire the fact that they bothered to animate the licking of lips while running, but immediately the next second we all wonder what's wrong with his eyes.

    • @JoePedo
      @JoePedo 10 месяцев назад

      What would you do if you looked at medusa?

  • @oliverschlesinger6744
    @oliverschlesinger6744 Год назад +43

    1:48 The pure look of disgust on his face, priceless. 😂 "What the F am i looking at?!"

  • @BaronBacon-u9g
    @BaronBacon-u9g 7 месяцев назад +4

    I like to imagine the woodland elves are just a bunch of airheads tripping on mushrooms.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  7 месяцев назад +1

      "His love of the Elves leaf, has clearly slowed his mind."

  • @shadowfax9177
    @shadowfax9177 Год назад +149

    At 4:05 "then you know nothing in Gondor!!" His face is something extra.

    • @sparrowt4082
      @sparrowt4082 2 месяца назад +5

      (⁠ノ⁠ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ⁠)⁠ノ
      "Then you know _nothing_ in Gondor!!"

  • @nickfidler6908
    @nickfidler6908 Год назад +144

    It's hard to pinpoint why, but this Legolas has extreme Luigi energy.

    • @skydancer644
      @skydancer644 11 месяцев назад +3

      What exactly do you mean Legolas has extreme Luigi energy? I'm not seeing any similarities between the two. You do mean Luigi from the Super Mario Bros right?

    • @jackg.1683
      @jackg.1683 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@skydancer644 There's not really actual similarities, it's just the energy

    • @Purple_.Duck..
      @Purple_.Duck.. 10 месяцев назад +1

      That’s what I’m saying😭

    • @eminkilicaslan8945
      @eminkilicaslan8945 8 месяцев назад +4

      I would argue they share contrasting slender shape and no visible jawline.

    • @RanOutOfSpac
      @RanOutOfSpac 7 месяцев назад +4

      That’s mama Luigi to you

  • @agentcarbunkle
    @agentcarbunkle 10 месяцев назад +115

    Gimli being nearly as tall as legolas is really odd

  • @elizabethperry2622
    @elizabethperry2622 Год назад +151

    3:31 as they are running away Aragorn‘s looking over at Legolas is hilarious. They’re “flying along” but Aragorn is clearly thinking “What… is up… with your… face…”

    • @L1Run
      @L1Run 10 месяцев назад +19

      Lol Legolas sticks his tongue out for basically no reason whatsoever

    • @thecensoredmuscle563
      @thecensoredmuscle563 7 месяцев назад +4

      Aragorn is one to speak

  • @thesonicarchitect1525
    @thesonicarchitect1525 Год назад +61

    Aragorn(readying himself for the next threat): What do you hear?
    Legolas(Crosses eyes and bites his lip) : Nothing. But I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllll

  • @Grasses0n
    @Grasses0n Год назад +75

    I love how sometimes the actors were barely traced over, especially the Orcs, it makes the movie feel so surreal.

  • @peterkim3370
    @peterkim3370 Год назад +33

    An asian, a native American and a viking stepped into Bree…

  • @gathenhielm9977
    @gathenhielm9977 10 месяцев назад +19

    "Then you know nothing in Gondor!"
    Holy shit, dude.

  • @roseclearwater9904
    @roseclearwater9904 5 месяцев назад +10

    No one’s talking about that weirdly long run where we’re looking straight up Legolas and Aragon’s nose for an absurdly slow mo depiction of running for your life 🤣

  • @maybunny25
    @maybunny25 11 месяцев назад +43

    Legolas smiling while riding his horse and then hugging Aragon was my favorite part of the movie.

  • @MainTopmastStaysail
    @MainTopmastStaysail 11 месяцев назад +15

    3:12 Imagine getting stabbed to death by some guy in shorts and then he points, laughs, and pirouettes at you.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  11 месяцев назад +5

      Sounds like a toxic player in a online battle that's been heavily modded.

  • @argonwheatbelly637
    @argonwheatbelly637 Год назад +63

    "Legolas, can you speak Bocce?" -- "Of course I can, sir. It's like a second language to me...."

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +12

      More second than elvish.

    • @thejuiceking2219
      @thejuiceking2219 5 месяцев назад +3

      of course, he's fluent in over 6 million forms of communication

  • @Mistardmuster
    @Mistardmuster Год назад +168

    I used to watch this repeatedly as a kid and it holds such a special place in my heart. I do remember watching Legolas and thinking to myself thats not how real people's faces work though.

  • @azureflame125
    @azureflame125 Год назад +77

    I never noticed how gigantic belt buckles are in this version. Aragorn's is bigger than his head.

    • @stivklif
      @stivklif Год назад +3

      Tolkien had a special fascination for belts and their buckles, and for curiously fashioned door knobs

    • @thekiss2083
      @thekiss2083 11 месяцев назад +18

      He's got to keep his pants from falling down!
      ......oh, wait

    • @SewingMink160
      @SewingMink160 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​​@@thekiss2083 Gondor has no pants.
      Gondor needs no pants

  • @alexandercarlson919
    @alexandercarlson919 Год назад +34

    0:45 I died laughing Gandalf is such a troll lol.

  • @kennethraymondmoore
    @kennethraymondmoore Год назад +470

    I remember when a Legolas was a Scottish girl who liked putting plastic bricks together.

    • @Darth_Memus
      @Darth_Memus Год назад +41

      Brother, this has gotta be the most underrated comment of all time, this is an amazing dad joke

    • @Bendesho
      @Bendesho Год назад +17

      Took me several seconds. Lulz.

    • @hopefullyhelping6664
      @hopefullyhelping6664 Год назад +13

      This comment gave me psychic damage. 😭

    • @zzodysseuszz
      @zzodysseuszz Год назад +12

      The “a” before Legolas was a very important note to make this comment make sense

    • @lorissteck3853
      @lorissteck3853 11 месяцев назад +1

      Jesus Christ…. GO TO BED KENNY…😂

  • @bryanbird1266
    @bryanbird1266 Год назад +71

    I do like his voice. So calm.

    • @mangoflavor4361
      @mangoflavor4361 Год назад +11

      Legolas ASMR

    • @towelgirl21
      @towelgirl21 11 месяцев назад +3

      Except when he says "You know nothing in Gondor!"

  • @towelgirl21
    @towelgirl21 Год назад +132

    This is absolutely mesmerizing. I've watched this video at least five times. 20 minutes of my life devoted to 1978 animated Legolas.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +10

      Why stop at 5?

    • @towelgirl21
      @towelgirl21 Год назад +3

      @@PsyCastic I should have written "so far" in there

    • @towelgirl21
      @towelgirl21 11 месяцев назад +1

      I keep coming back.

  • @Menfiz
    @Menfiz 11 месяцев назад +32

    1:48 It's like he wants to punch Sam but he's fighting his inner demons from doing it 😂

  • @BlackBeWhite2k7
    @BlackBeWhite2k7 Год назад +51

    So funny to remember this was the most popular imagery most people had in their heads about LOTR before the Peter Jackson films for the longest time

  • @TheHighwaymanC-wo7dc
    @TheHighwaymanC-wo7dc Год назад +15

    “Pippin and Merry may be dead by now, we don’t know.” Legolas said with no emotion or feeling whatsoever

  • @SecretLars
    @SecretLars Год назад +25

    2:35 That is one tall dwarf.

  • @yorkiesam_artist
    @yorkiesam_artist 11 месяцев назад +14

    Gimli, tallest of all the dwarves. So tall that if it wasn't for everyone else telling us he was a dwarf, we'd never know...

  • @HiHi-lt1cb
    @HiHi-lt1cb 11 месяцев назад +23

    My dad was convinced that this version was more accurate to the book because in the book, Glorfindel showed up to take Frodo to Rivendell. So he turned the movie on and said "look its Glorfindel!" but 0:09 humbled him real quick XD

    • @shady8045
      @shady8045 5 дней назад

      The funny thing is I wondered why Arwen took him in the movie even before I knew better. Like it seemed like a weird way to introduce her character.

  • @raphaelregnault6914
    @raphaelregnault6914 10 месяцев назад +4

    People trashtalking Legolas when Gimli is a 6 foot tall dwarf.

  • @error-try-again-later
    @error-try-again-later 11 месяцев назад +12

    "One of them, anyway."
    Goddamn try not to sound _too_ happy about it Legolas 😂💀

  • @madsmari
    @madsmari 11 месяцев назад +22

    Hearing that Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) played Legolas intrigued me, so I looked this up. I dunno what exactly I was expecting, but he sounds unrecognizable. Goes to show he’s a very versatile actor who brings a real talent to a variety of character types. An underused actor. Also John Hurt is great in this and his voice is so lovely and soothing, another enormous but under appreciated talent

  • @FrankLucas-pw5hs
    @FrankLucas-pw5hs Год назад +29

    One cannot simply have a Logolas highlight reel without the words:
    "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!!"

  • @mackenziemorris3102
    @mackenziemorris3102 11 месяцев назад +16

    i just love Aragorn being so happy to see Legolas and them immediately sharing a big ol hug. Such bros

  • @CloverSchilling
    @CloverSchilling 11 месяцев назад +20

    1:07 Omg they're friends tho. I love it. 10/10 no notes, change nothing.

  • @zmani4379
    @zmani4379 Год назад +33

    This is C-3PO who's voicing Legolas - I loved, loved this film when I saw it in the cinemas - it's the film that really got me into Tolkien (along w that magical Hobbit cartoon w its folk songs and incredible dragon) - nothing compares w Jackson's version, but this film had a major impact on many of its initial young viewers - along w Watership Down and the entrancing Last Unicorn, these fierce cartoons felt like a bridge into being a grown-up

  • @RedheadMetalC
    @RedheadMetalC Год назад +46

    Now looking back at cartoon Legolas, i really don't understand what the hell is up with his eyes, really looks like somebody made custom Dark Souls player model in minute.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +17

      His facial structure changes and morphs throughout, especially his eyes. We first see him with big eyes, later they shrink. Like Link in Ocarina Of Time

    • @Quirderph
      @Quirderph Год назад +18

      I assume they were trying to make him look otherworldly. How well that worked is another question.

  • @uroborous01
    @uroborous01 Год назад +76

    Man i had forgotten this. It really is a very unique gem of an adaptation.
    Not to mention it was all done with semi practical sets and rotoscoping.
    Just the whole idea of: “we cant really do this with practical fx in this day and age, what if we did it with animation? But like… with people.” Its just an amazing product of its time.

    • @MrSoso1050
      @MrSoso1050 Год назад +4

      A bunch of talented people at the right place at the right time. To create this impossible masterpiece.

    • @KopperNeoman
      @KopperNeoman Год назад +1

      It's just the CGI of its era.

    • @K12machinima
      @K12machinima 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, it’s truly a great film, for all its faults. It has a tone more close to the novels, with a vibe of seriousness and stoic dialogue, which I always had in mind when reading through the trilogy.
      I prefer it to the Jackson adaptation, but it’s not to say those films are bad - I just feel the Bakshi version has a better atmosphere, and conveys the rugged and ever present danger that Middle-Earth has in it.
      Jackson just kind of paints this “pretty” and grand version of Middle-Earth, with Mordor being “the bad area”, where Bakshi had the idea to paint the world as being wild and pristine, but always with a hint of danger in the depths. I even prefer the Bakshi orc designs to the Jackson ones, just barely, because they looked more menacing and wild, and closer to the interpretation of them being corrupted men/elves.
      Dunno. I could talk about this film for hours, it’s just a great oddity. :)

  • @samschmidt8772
    @samschmidt8772 Год назад +30

    I love the combination of mediums. You've got painted backdrops, live-action, traditional animation, rotoscoping, and one shot where Aragorn and Legolas are running where the background seems to literally be a blue-painted wall. One of the things I find really funny is how some scenes you can tell how obviously rotoscoped the scene is. And it seems like the Hobbits aren't rotoscoped, or at least they didn't follow it as closely, but that's probably due to their size. They couldn't be filmed interacting with the actors who were filmed for the rotoscoping.
    Gimli is also very tall, which I find funny. Boromir's horned helmet is also very amusing. As is Aragorn's lack of pants.

  • @subliteral
    @subliteral Год назад +208

    This version of Legolas had a lot going for it as far as I'm concerned. He's unabashedly beautiful & graceful. His voice is melodious as described. Straight up deadly in battle. I like him , even though he's been erased from existence by Orlando Bloom's portrayal for this generation.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +39

      I'd like Legolas in this film too. Appearance and personality. When Jackson's version came out, he became more awesome. At one point he was my favourite character in LOTR.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor Год назад +6

      " I like him , even though he's been erased from existence by Orlando Bloom's portrayal for this generation." For YOUR generation perhaps.

    • @uphilliceskater
      @uphilliceskater Год назад +44

      Christopher Tolkien wrote this in The Book of Lost Tales II: "Ultimately, of course, the Elves shed all associations and qualities that would be now commonly considered 'fairylike', and those who remained in the Great Lands in Ages of the world at this time unconceived were to grow greatly in stature and in power: there was nothing filmy or transparent about the heroic or majestic Eldar of the Third Age of Middleearth. Long afterwards my father would write, in a wrathful comment on a 'pretty' or 'ladylike' pictorial rendering of Legolas: He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgul, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship."

    • @subliteral
      @subliteral Год назад +12

      @archvaldor Ha! Thanks for thinking I'm that young. Bakshi's Legolas was the first I'd ever seen on film ; I was about 16 and saw this movie during its theatrical run.

    • @RedFloyd469
      @RedFloyd469 Год назад +13

      @@uphilliceskater
      Damn...
      So you're saying Legolas was the original gigachad and not the skinny wood-elf stereotype we see everywhere?

  • @Kayciee130
    @Kayciee130 10 месяцев назад +6

    Legolas slowly turning towards the camera saying ‘but I feel…’ has killed me. It’s like a scene from The Office 😂

  • @---ro1fc
    @---ro1fc Год назад +18

    I don’t know a thing about The Lord of the Rings (other than the fact that it’s a book series?), but the expression at 1:48 is the best thing I’ve seen this week

  • @SeenAGreatLight
    @SeenAGreatLight Год назад +11

    Ah yes, the three great hunters:
    *Unique-olas, Gimli the Tall Bearded Man, and Native Amaragorn.*

  • @gidi7663
    @gidi7663 Год назад +15

    3:38 licking his lips while running, i can relate.

  • @patrickjones8255
    @patrickjones8255 11 месяцев назад +6

    Gimli isn't even a dwarf. He's just some 5'6" middle aged man.

  • @DarkraiDiety
    @DarkraiDiety Год назад +15

    It's like a high functioning austistic Legolas.

  • @andymac4883
    @andymac4883 Год назад +25

    4:00 *Jesus* Boromir, what happened to your sword?!

    • @willvermillion1025
      @willvermillion1025 Год назад +27

      He was stressed so he chewed it like a pencil

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +11

      He ran out of repair hammers. :P

  • @D.H.1082
    @D.H.1082 11 месяцев назад +13

    The people who made this film didn't have to make it so comedic, yet here we are, and I am happier for it.

  • @GeigermSv
    @GeigermSv Год назад +28

    0:17 A heavy drunken pal and me when we finally find each other in a party while congratulating in Simlish.

    • @ilikechoccymilk5605
      @ilikechoccymilk5605 Год назад +2

      That's oddly specific

    • @GeigermSv
      @GeigermSv Год назад +1

      @@ilikechoccymilk5605 And oddly looking like this according friends.

  • @dawson1787
    @dawson1787 10 месяцев назад +4

    Forgot how snappy and sassy this version Legolas was bro needs to take a chill pill 😂

  • @RoyMcRoyerson
    @RoyMcRoyerson 7 месяцев назад +8

    So this is where Bethesda got their visual ideas for elves in Oblivion

  • @mastermill79
    @mastermill79 11 месяцев назад +17

    Ralph Bakshi's work is very distinct. Also Legolas has Steve Irwin's face in the thumbnail 😂 Love it.

  • @allengordon6929
    @allengordon6929 Год назад +9

    I like this version.
    Tolkein elves aren't improved humans. They are utterly inhuman. The minds of biblicially accurate angels in the bodies of alpine succubus-vampires and old irish baby-stealing man-eating time-manipulating yandere banshees.

    • @lightborn9071
      @lightborn9071 Год назад

      Why do I now have Warhammer in my mind?

    • @allengordon6929
      @allengordon6929 Год назад

      @@lightborn9071 well, the 40k versions are called eldar after all

  • @jonathantan2469
    @jonathantan2469 Год назад +11

    Legolas looks like an occasional recurring character from the Prince Valiant cartoon series.

  • @Snyperwolf91
    @Snyperwolf91 Год назад +1

    Ahh yes !! Scottish Aragon without pants and pure freedom under his belted .... dress ?

  • @amandafrazier9724
    @amandafrazier9724 11 месяцев назад +10

    Where 👏 are 👏 Aragorn's 👏 pants 👏
    This whole thing is like a car crash and I cannot look away. The expressions. The line deliveries. The running. The choice to make every character look like they belong in a zero- budget porn or a tertiary character in a Rob Zombie film. How have I never seen this before. I love it and you can't stop me.

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  11 месяцев назад +5

      Imagine the whole fellowship with no pants... or even Middle Earth.

    • @user-wi9hv2pb2q
      @user-wi9hv2pb2q 11 месяцев назад +6

      I love how when they blue screen Aragorn and Legolas we get that awful animation of their faces then, just when youre thinking hiw awkward it is,, the camera angle just drops and focuses on Aragorn's mini skirt and bare legs. Outstanding.

    • @NiCoNiCoNiCola
      @NiCoNiCoNiCola 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@PsyCastic imagine all gondorian men in LotR without pants, be it Boromir or a brave unnamed soldier

  • @gianna526
    @gianna526 11 месяцев назад +5

    2:29 tf gimli, how can you tell which hobbit's footprint it is? Either Pippin has a disfigured foot that's easy to spot, or Gimli's memorized Pippin's foot....

  • @acereporter73
    @acereporter73 11 месяцев назад +8

    2:23 I forgot that was supposed to be a Balrog... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @sterisharms1468
    @sterisharms1468 11 месяцев назад +3

    can we talk about the balrog just standing completely straight and raising his hands straight up as if with no intention to move forward

  • @venepskeuten9206
    @venepskeuten9206 Год назад +40

    Rotoscoping looks a bit wack, but it does have a certain charm

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +5

      May I recommend watching: A Scanner Darkly. It's a bit psychedelic but great.

    • @BlackSeedCH
      @BlackSeedCH Год назад +1

      Wizards

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +5

      @@BlackSeedCH Wizards is great too. If were going with Bakshi's Rotoscope, then Cool World too.

    • @BlackSeedCH
      @BlackSeedCH Год назад

      @@PsyCastic Cool World, i lost this, we had to get the VHS from a friends dad, from his special casket... 😁, same for Heavy Metal 🤣

    • @zmani4379
      @zmani4379 Год назад

      @@PsyCastic great suggestion - everyone should see this

  • @tillybumbilly
    @tillybumbilly Год назад +8

    Legolas looks like a beavis and butthead character at 2:58

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад

      Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh...you said Butt. Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh, that was cool...Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh

  • @exogenesus6841
    @exogenesus6841 11 месяцев назад +84

    Legolas at 2:53: “hey animator you forgot my eyeliner”
    Animator: “oh my bad”
    Legolas: 2:54

    • @eminkilicaslan8945
      @eminkilicaslan8945 8 месяцев назад +9

      Bro turned and gazed right into my soul

    • @NoRegerts
      @NoRegerts 6 месяцев назад +1

      You guys 😭😭😂😂

  • @supercompooper
    @supercompooper Год назад +28

    I own a lot of the animation cells from this! My treasured one is the balrog ❤

  • @palamabron2481
    @palamabron2481 Год назад +4

    Legolas looks like he just rode in from Derpwood.

  • @n0isyturtle
    @n0isyturtle 11 месяцев назад +4

    The heights of all the characters are completely inconsistent

  • @katiePetsy
    @katiePetsy Год назад +13

    3:31 I make the same face when I run 😂 I jog with elfin grace

  • @yespls4184
    @yespls4184 Год назад +6

    Hearing AURUMAN just cracks me up every time lol

  • @swampstar
    @swampstar 11 месяцев назад +3

    Stop staring at me with them big ol eyes

  • @FischerFilmStudio
    @FischerFilmStudio 11 месяцев назад +12

    I actually think Frodo and Legolas in this version were the only characters that felt like their book counterparts.

  • @mojododo6363
    @mojododo6363 Год назад +7

    That's a very short dress you're wearing there Aragorn

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +1

      *SLAP*
      Aragorn: "Hentai!"

  • @bobthemexican8192
    @bobthemexican8192 Год назад +10

    Normal height Gimli doesn't exist, he can't hurt you...

    • @PsyCastic
      @PsyCastic  Год назад +6

      No...but HE can toss you!

  • @Elementroar
    @Elementroar Год назад +8

    I love how most of the time Legolas looks weird is because if he can look down at the camera, he will go for it!