Movie Essay
November, 1978
In an office just off Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, animated film creator Ralph Bakshi is busy whipping a team of more than 180 young artists into the sort of frenzy needed to complete part one of what will eventually be a five-hour animation of J. R. R. Tolkien's contemporary fantasy classic, The Lord of the Rings--which, in case you've been under a rock somewhere for the past decade or two, is the saga of the adventures of Frodo the Hobbit. Hobbits, as you probably know, are pint-sized crea...
