This animated film which tells the tale of young hobbit, Frodo, with a magical ring. dark forces are after Frodo. Accompanied by his hobbit friends, he must leave his peaceful home and travel to Mount Doom, where the ring must be destroyed.
23 February 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 June 1943
9 May 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 April 1924, Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
8 April 1938, New York City, New York, USA
1 March 1930, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 October 1924, Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
31 March 1916, New York City, New York, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
14 June 1915, Washington Township, Iowa, USA
10 October 1947, Illinois, USA
5 November 1918, London, England, UK
17 March 1936, Perkinsville, New York, USA
5 November 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 October 1924, Millsboro, Pennsylvania, USA
21 January 1948, Houston, Texas, USA
13 July 1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 October 1931, Sierra Madre, California, USA
18 February 1908, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
19 October 1922, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
7 November 1938, New Jersey, USA
December 03, 2012
Tolkien fans, who are familiar with novels, will find it enjoyble, while others may be confused by the action.February 09, 2006
Bakshi's version, using animation and live-action tracings, is uniformly excellent, sticking closely to the original text and visually echoing many of Tolkien's own drawings.May 09, 2005
The film is visually compelling even when murk overtakes the narrative.December 03, 2012
It looked terrible then and it still does: cartoon characters move differently from live actors, and the attempt to duplicate natural movement ends in stylistic incoherence.October 23, 2004
Falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story.November 25, 2012
It's a reckless film, blitzing through some plot points and stalling out over others; the lack of a particular rhythm does not do it any favors, and it is certainly not a fast 133 minutes.October 14, 2011
A contemporary viewing of The Lord of the Rings is an exercise in outlandishness as well as nostalgia: dreamlike, peculiar.December 03, 2012
What most people remember is the mix of the live-action tracing within the traditional animation and just how effectively creepy it managed to be, but for the time this did a pretty good job of adapting the dense novels.December 03, 2012
Innovative and beautiful, cheesy and disjointed.August 03, 2010
Animated adventure too dated and dark for younger kids.July 07, 2010
Quite simply, those who do not know the characters of Middle Earth going in will not know them coming out.November 24, 2001
A showcase for inspired imagery and sheer strangeness, a near-miss magnum opus from another era, before the cult of Tolkien went Hollywood.