>Imagine if Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit had been kept so pristine. It kind of was until fairly recently with the Jackson films. Growing up in the 1970s an

>Imagine if Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit had been kept so pristine. It kind of was until fairly recently with the Jackson films. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s we basically just had the books. Yes, there were animated versions of The Hobbit and LOTR in the late 1970s, but they were fairly obscure and before VCRs became common in the 1980s, it was difficult to even see them.