SciFi.com has an interesting interview up right now to help promote Peter Beagle’s sequel to “The Last Unicorn,” “Two Hearts.” Beagle’s straightforward and honest answers lead to a good piece, with a few interesting quotes along the way regarding his gig as the screenwriter for Ralph Bakshi’s animated “Lord of the Rings” movie and his hopes for more feature film adaptations of his own creations.

“I thought that the animated Lord of the Rings, was, in an artistic sense, a disaster. I felt the screenplay was extremely good, and I was very proud of having a chance to work with actors like John Hurt and Peter Woodthorpe and William Squires. But I don’t think it’s much of a movie. I think it might have stood a chance if the second film was made, the way we always planned. But as a single movie I think it’s incoherent. A lot of parts got cut up, or shoveled and jumbled together with no discernible pattern or rhythm. And yet it has survived. And I’ve been told by a fair number of people that they like it better than the Jackson film. I can’t imagine saying that or feeling like that, myself, but there you are. As for The Last Unicorn, by comparison it is magnificent—at least it follows the story, as much as we could. Some parts of it are better than others.”

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