Afaik I'm the only Tolkien-loving Zidders out there lol. As far as Peter Jackson I'm pretty sure he went with big Hobbit feet for the same reason you suppose-Bakshi's LotR was his first introduction to Tolkien. Plus there are moments throughout both his Tolkien trilogy's that serve as callbacks to both Bakshi and Rankin-Bass's Lotr and Hobbit/Return of the King. Specifically the look of the black riders, the bit in Fellowship where they're hiding under the tree & the Ringwraith is snuffling about and the bit in the Prancing Pony where the wraiths all gather in Frodo's room & discover they've stuffed the beds with pillows.
Fun fact-Sean Astin so hated having to put on the feet every day he not only pointed out that it never says they have big feel anywhere in Tolkien's works he kept a daily record of how much time he had to spend in the chair getting them put on vs how little time they were in that days scenes.
Afaik I'm the only Tolkien-loving Zidders out there lol. As far as Peter Jackson I'm pretty sure he went with big Hobbit feet for the same reason you suppose-Bakshi's LotR was his first introduction to Tolkien. Plus there are moments throughout both his Tolkien trilogy's that serve as callbacks to both Bakshi and Rankin-Bass's Lotr and Hobbit/Return of the King. Specifically the look of the black riders, the bit in Fellowship where they're hiding under the tree & the Ringwraith is snuffling about and the bit in the Prancing Pony where the wraiths all gather in Frodo's room & discover they've stuffed the beds with pillows.
Fun fact-Sean Astin so hated having to put on the feet every day he not only pointed out that it never says they have big feel anywhere in Tolkien's works he kept a daily record of how much time he had to spend in the chair getting them put on vs how little time they were in that days scenes.