In 1977 Bakshi had made his first serious attempt to bring fantasy to the screen with his animated hit Wizards ... So, in November 1978, Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings came out as a stand-alone ...

Before the new The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim anime film comes out, Steve and Lucas take a trip back to 1978 to talk about the original animated version. Steve, people can say what ...

This isn't the first animated adaptation to be set in ... and feel of Ralph Bakshi's singular, if ill-fated, 1978 take on The Lord of the Rings. Director Kenji Kamiyama, a veteran animation ...

The days of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy feel as innocent now as those little hobbits frolicking, unburdened, in the Shire – three films adapted with sincerity, before the ...

Is That It for The Lord of the Rings Anime? War of the Rohirrim‘s opening weekend figures don’t look promising for the franchise’s animated future. Even with the Lord of the Rings IP ...

Before Jackson (an executive producer here) built Middle-earth in New Zealand, “The Lord of the Rings” prompted a pair of 1970s animated TV specials and a not-much-remembered animated 1978 movie.

When Gaia Wise got the call confirming she’d been cast as the lead in the new animated film “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” she screamed so loudly her neighbors called the ...