once again another bakshi movie is at times hard to follow or completly understand what is going on, even though it made more sense than most of his other movies. And once again despite its flaws it does look very cool. His animation style and rotoscoping give all his work a very unique sense of style and this is where he gets most of his appeal. We are given very good characters and the first two books of the lord of the rings trilogy compacted down into one movie that unfortunatly was never finished.