Film

The Lord of the Rings

1978 · 2h 12m · Adventure · Animation · Fantasy

Fantasy...beyond your imagination.

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

48%

Metacritic

51

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.

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)

Philip Stone

Theoden (voice)

André Morell

Elrond (voice)

Annette Crosbie

Galadriel (voice)

Michael Deacon

Wormtongue (voice)

• Ralph BakshiDirector
• Peter S. BeagleScreenplay
• Chris ConklingScreenplay
• J. R. R. TolkienNovel
• Nancy EichlerProducer
• Saul ZaentzProducer
• Timothy GalfasDirector of Photography
• Leonard RosenmanOriginal Music Composer
• Donald W. ErnstEditor
• Peter KirbyEditor

The Lord of the Rings (animated 1978)

Release date

November 15, 1978

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

PG

Budget

$4,000,000

Revenue

$30,477,175

Genres

Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

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