Actors/Artists:  Dominic Guard, Don Messick, Michael Scholes, Orson Bean, Richard Boone, William Conrad

Director:  Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, Ralph Bakshi

Audio:

English: Stereo

DC-DVD Price: £46.75

Three animated feature films based on the novels of author J.R.R. Tolkien. "The Lord Of The Rings" (1978, 1.85:1, 134 min.) - Animated version of a film that is only the first two parts of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic fantasy trilogy of the same name are covered by this rotoscoped animated feature about a band of travellers of different races who seek to defeat an evil sorcerer and his armies with the aid of powerful but insidious magical ring. "The Return Of The King" (1980, 97 min.) - This animated film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minos Tirith, but Sauron seems to have the upper hand while the source of his power, the Ring, slowly threatens to corrupt its bearers. "The Hobbit" (1978, 78 min.) - Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by an evil dragon named Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't....

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