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The Lord of the Rings
Fantasy...beyond your imagination.
Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won't be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.
- Original title
- The Lord of the Rings
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB,US
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Revenue
- $30,477,175
RealZero
Apr 30, 2026 · via TMDB
I actually liked this one more than I assumed from the few things I had seen about it before. Seeing it independent of the Jackson Lord of the Rings movies: First off, being adapted from the books, the story and characters are classic and quite nice. Of course, considering they put two of three LotR book into just about two hours, there's a lot of the story's content missing. But I think the movies does a quite good job, considering that limitation, to show the big, most important parts. The characters look, considering the age of the movie, quite nice, the voice actors do a good job, and several of the drawn backgrounds look really nice. The few calm scenes feel nice as well. The usage of rotoscoped live-action in between looks interesting, certainly an interesting stylistic choice, I personally am not a big fan of the mix of it, though. Especially in the few scenes where drawn and live-action characters are shown together it feels a little uncanny. It's not something that's really bad, though, I personally would just have preferred to stick to the drawn models. Some of the character's movement feels a bit "acted over the top", but even that is kinda entertaining. On the same hand it sadly doesn't offer any really moving or "epic" speeches or emotions, but still, the voice actors do a nice job. So, overall, I think it's not a bad adaption of the two books, again, under the limitation of only having two hours. - Now, of course, in comparison, the Jackson movies are more impressive in every way and I'd certainly go with them. But given time, money and age limitations, this one does a nice job. And it's certainly visible how Jackson was partially inspired by this, and comparing individual scenes, it's nice to see how similar some of them are handled. This movie shows its age, but it's certainly not a bad one. I would've liked to see the third book being adapted like this as well. Sam's still the best buddy!
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Christopher Guard
Frodo (voice)
William Squire
Gandalf (voice)
John Hurt
Aragorn (voice)
Simon Chandler
Merry (voice)
Dominic Guard
Pippin (voice)
Michael Graham Cox
Boromir (voice)
Anthony Daniels
Legolas (voice)
David Buck
Gimli (voice)
Norman Bird
Bilbo (voice)
Philip Stone
Theoden (voice)
André Morell
Elrond (voice)
Annette Crosbie
Galadriel (voice)
John Westbrook
Treebeard (voice)
Alan Tilvern
Innkeeper (voice)
Billy Barty
Character Actor (voice)
Jerry Maren
Character Actor (voice)
Chuck Hayward
Character Actor (voice)
Mic Rodgers
Character Actor (voice)
Mel Smith
Character Actor (voice)
Ralph Bakshi
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Leonard Rosenman
Original Music Composer
Phil Roman
Animation
Sam Jaimes
Animation
Dale Baer
Key Animation
Steven E. Gordon
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J. R. R. Tolkien
Novel
Peter S. Beagle
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