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Click here to read part 9. Concluding Thoughts: What Changed with Peter Jackson? It’s hard to make a case that any pre-Jackson takes on Lord of the Rings is a classic. Some (the Finnish miniseries…
Click here to read part 8. The Hobbits (1993, directed by Timo Torikka) Hobitit, a nine-episode miniseries released on Finnish TV, is probably the most difficult of these media to find—at least through legitimate methods…
Click here to read part 7. Treasures Under the Mountain (1991, unreleased, directed by Roman Mitrofanov) Russia seems to have had a particular fondness for Tolkien during the Soviet era. This may be related to…
The Keepers (1991, directed by Natalya Serebryakova) Click here to read 6. Khraniteli, better known by its transliterated title The Keepers (as in “The Keepers of the Ring”) was a two-part miniseries released on Lengingrad…
Click here to read part 5. The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit (1985, directed by Vladimir Latyshev) Eight years after Rankin-Bass’ take on The Hobbit, Leningrad TV released a live-action adaptation for children.…
Click here to read part 4. The Return of the King (1980, Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass) While the Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Hobbit has its moments, the Rankin-Bass adaptation of Return…
Click here to read part 3. Lord of the Rings (1978, directed by Ralph Bakshi) Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings is interesting, influential, but not entirely successful. Time Out included it as a qualified entry…
By Thomas J. McIntyre John Ronald Ruel (hereafter referred to as J.R.R.) Tolkien, author of the epic Lord of the Rings saga, was a devout Catholic. He passed to his eternal reward in 1973, almost four…
Click here to read part 2. The Hobbit (1977, Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass) Created by the team who went on to produce fantasy film The Last Unicorn, and also known for…
Click here to read Part 1. Lord of the Rings (1971, directed by Bo Hansson) The miniseries Sagan om Ringen consists of two fourteen-minute episodes that appeared on Swedish TV channel SVT1. A narrator talks…
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