The Lord Of The Rings Cartoon! Marvel’s Warrior Of The Shadow Realm!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

3 productions, 3 Director’s across 2 networks and one theatrical release! The Lord Of The Rings media experience started in 1977 with a disparate set of animated productions, released across 4 years! Rob takes you through the arrival of Tolkien’s classic cartoons as they unspooled in real time! Plus, Marvel enlists top talents as it gets in on all the fantasy action with the stellar Warriors Of The Shadow Realm, a Weirdworld saga!

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0:00.0	On today's show, it's Lord of the Rings, the animated series.
0:17.2	Did you even know this was a thing?
0:19.3	Three films over four years. Two networks. One studio
0:27.6	theatrical release. It wasn't supposed to work, but it did. Okay? And we're going to talk all about it
0:33.5	today and how the Lord of the Rings was released in order, by the way, you went from
0:39.1	Hobbit to return to the king, you got them all, but it was the most kind of wonderful mistake
0:45.6	that ever happened, but we're going to discuss how it all went down, how it worked, and more
0:49.4	importantly, how Marvel was like, we're getting in on this. We are getting in on this fantasy Lord of the Rings,
0:55.6	dollar, even one of the comics.
0:57.6	Finally, Weird World, Warriors of the Shadow Realm,
1:00.3	I'm going to talk about it on one of them.
1:01.8	It says, if you love JRR.R. Tolkien's, Lord of the Rings,
1:06.0	this comic's for you.
1:07.3	So we're going to get all the way into that today.
1:10.7	But first, before we go, I have to
1:13.2	tell you that in this episode, this is the greatest part about doing a cold open is I can tell
1:19.8	you, I'm going to make a mistake. Early on in the episode, I erroneously identify the, the Wolverine film being directed by James McAvoy, where that's not the case at all.
1:36.7	So that is, James McAvoy did not direct the Wolverine.
1:40.4	There, I got it out of the way.
1:41.7	So now you can see the mistake before it comes.
1:44.6	Enjoy this episode as much as I did making it for you.
1:48.7	Here we go, another new episode of Rob'servations.
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