The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Fantasy...beyond your imagination.
Director: Ralph Bakshi · Writers: Chris Conkling, Peter S. Beagle
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.
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Director
Ralph Bakshi
Cast
Christopher Guard
Frodo (voice) 
William Squire
Gandalf (voice) 
Michael Scholes
Sam (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)
Peter Woodthorpe
Gollum (voice)
Fraser Kerr
Saruman (voice) User Reviews (1)
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 dr…
