The 1978 animated film The Lord of the Rings, by Ralph Bakshi is what we like to call a beautiful mess. There’s a lot of gorgeous animation and painting and illustration throughout the film, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.