Talk:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)

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Because of their length, the previous discussions on this page have been archived. If further archiving is needed, see Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.

Previous discussions:

• Archive 1 (7 October 2004 to 22 December 2005):
• Archive 2 (22 December 2005 to 27 March 2006):
• Archive 3 (27 March 2006 to 9 December 2006)
• Archive 4 (13 December 2006 to 21 January 2007)
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[edit] Archival

Why was the last Talk archived? It only covered just over one month, and had three items in it? I have restored two of them, as I do not believe these were sorted out. So I have restored A Critique and United Artists deemed the film a flop from Archive 4.StephenBuxton 17:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Both of these issues have been resolved. I didn't want these old discussions to take up so much space. As they have been taken care of, there is no need for anyone to be concerned with them. (Ibaranoff24 21:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC))
  • Regarding the idea that the film might have been a flop, I flipped through Leonard Maltin's book on animation while in New York a while ago. According to him, Bakshi had only two major successes in his career, and LOTR was one of them (the other was Fritz the Cat). I added that bit of info to the article. I'm not sure what page this was on, though. (Ibaranoff24 06:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Plot

The film's plot is too long. Keeping with the current criteria for Featured Articles, they must meet the Manual of Style for their respective WikiProject, which wants plots closer to 600 words, unless they are complicated plots. LOTR isn't a complicated plot. It may have a lot of detail, but complicated it's not.  BIGNOLE   (Question?)  (What I do)  19:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)