@Monkey_King:
How many people actually base any Lord of the Rings based nostalgia around those Fritz the cat guys movies. I've never even seen them. And I've heard them to be at best mediocre and unfinished.
Bakshi's Lord of the Rings just up and ends right after the battle of Helm's Deep. He intended to make a second film, but that never happened. Rankin-Bass, who is better known for their Christmas Specials than anything else, made a Return of the King for television.
Bakshi's film suffered from most of his worst excesses; overuse of rotoscoping and stock footage, bad actors (watch Gandalf flail around during a given speech and try not to laugh), and poor editing. The best example of the last was the scene where the Nazgul chase the Fellowship to the river outside of Rivendell and the Witch-King tries to work up the courage to follow them. Unfortunately for the film, the guy playing the Witch-King had a horse that had no interest in doing what he wanted and the result was 90-odd seconds of the horse nervously pacing back and forth. I'm pretty sure that's right as I timed it for a review I wrote a long time ago of the fil,. We also see Aragorn also fall down once while running. Sam is also dumb as a bag of hammers in this, which grates after a while.
The Rankin-Bass films are… well, The Hobbit is decent enough though it's a cliff-notes version of the film and has some truly awful music to it. The Return of the King is unintentionally hilarious. Of the two, the Rankin-Bass versions have the far better cast though the character designs have to be seen to be believed. The Ringwraith in particular.
@Satsuki:
Really want to see Jackon's interpretation of goblins!!
We did see his interpretation of them. The creature that was killed by the newborn Uruk-Hai was a goblin as were the archers in Moria.
@CosmicDebris:
It's never really clear whether Goblins differentiate from orcs in Tolkien's world. They seem to be described as a sub-class of orcs. My impression was always that the orcs in Moria could be described as goblins.
According to the revised version of The Hobbit, goblins are just smaller cousins of orcs though they seem to be more mechanically inclined and less interested in fighting. I'll have to find my annotated version to see if orcs were originally mentioned at all or if that was added when Tolkien changed the Riddle Game and its aftermath to match the Lord of the Rings. If nothing else, Tolkien doesn't seem to portray orcs as being all that inventive compared to the Goblins of the Misty Mountains in The Hobbit or as willing to run away when things are going badly.
Of course, there's not all that many references to the goblins in the Lord of the Rings. The two main instances that I can recall were the group that didn't want to accompany the Uruk-Hai to Isengard and the goblin deserter in Return of the King.