How the Battle for 'Lord of the Rings' Nearly Broke a Director

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 11/10/18 | David Weiner

[OddLane]

Forty years after Ralph Bakshi's animated classic hit theaters, the filmmaker recalls courting Mick Jagger and Led Zeppelin and speaks candidly about the extreme pressure he was under: "I nearly died." Mick Jagger as Frodo. A Led Zeppelin soundtrack.

Battles on the field and behind the scenes before a three-film saga went bust. Forty years after his animated classic The Lord of the Rings hit theaters Nov. 15, 1978, these are some of the things on director Ralph Bakshi's mind during a candid conversation about what happened, and what could have been...

[mindburglar]

Good read. Thanks.

[dangus]

This oughtta break you up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upjJFEpf-pc

[dangus]

Dressed from head to toe, and dancing as UNseductively as you can imagine, and yeah, they are.

[Fightin Whitey]

Have you ever been to a party, walked up to a group of people you don’t know and said, “I don’t care about what you’re talking about?”

That's pretty good.

An honest man probably ought to do it at least once in his life.