Adventure · Animation

The Lord of the Rings

Name: The Lord of the Rings
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
Released: 1978-11-15
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler

Fantasy...beyond your imagination.

6.6(1,063) 11/15/1978 2h 12m

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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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Top 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)

Directed by

Ralph Bakshi

Production

Fantasy Films Bakshi Productions Saul Zaentz Film Productions

Reviews

RealZero

6/10

4/30/2026

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 c