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Wizards
Why this pick
Bakshi’s earlier fantasy uses similarly rough-edged rotoscoped imagery, a mythic struggle against spreading darkness, and an unusually adult, melancholy texture for animation.
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MOVIE1978 2h 12m USA
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Why this pick
Another Bakshi fantasy, with tactile rotoscoped action, stark landscapes, perilous travel, and a darker pulp-fantasy visual energy that suits the 1978 film’s handmade grandeur.
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Why this pick
A sweeping animated odyssey about a threatened world, ancient forces, and a determined traveller; it shares the epic scale and morally shadowed fantasy atmosphere without copying Tolkien.
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The Secret of Kells
Why this pick
Its ornate, hand-drawn visual world and folklore-rooted journey offer a more luminous counterpart to Bakshi’s stylisation, with danger and wonder woven into an old-world mythic landscape.
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Princess Mononoke
Why this pick
For the grave, immersive fantasy conflict: it builds a fully lived-in realm of forests, warfare, corrupted power, and uneasy alliances, with a scale that feels genuinely legendary.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Early in the Second Age of Middle-earth, Elf (Middle-earth) smiths forge nine Rings of Power for mortal Man (Middle-earth), seven for the Dwarf (Middle-earth), and three for the Elf-Kings. Soon after, the Dark Lord Sauron makes the One Ring, and uses it to attempt to conquer Middle-earth. Following the Last Alliance of Elves and Men's fall, the Ring is seized by Prince Isildur; and after Isildur was killed by Orc (Middle-earth), the Ring lies at the bottom of the river Anduin for over 2,500 years. Over time, Sauron captures the Nine Rings and transforms their owners into the Nazgûl. The One Ring is discovered by Déagol, whose cousin, Sméagol, kills him and takes the Ring for himself. The Ring twists his body and mind, and he becomes the creature Gollum (Peter Woodthorpe). Hundreds of years later, Bilbo Baggins (Norman Bird) finds the Ring in Gollum's cave and takes it back to the Shire (Middle-earth).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
David Buck
Gimli (voice)
Peter Woodthorpe
Gollum (voice)
Fraser Kerr
Saruman (voice)
John Westbrook
Treebeard (voice)
Billy Barty
Character Actor (voice)
Jerry Maren
Character Actor (voice)
Chuck Hayward
Character Actor (voice)
Annette Crosbie
Galadriel (voice)