Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Jersey Jason, and William Thrasher discuss The Lord of the Rings, a theatrical cartoon directed by Ralph Bakshi. Meant to be the first of a two film series, United Artists chose not to fund a proper sequel making this an odd outlier J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation.

A ring with magical powers gets gifted from Bilbo Baggins (Norman Bird) to Frodo Baggins (Christopher Guard), but evil Sauron and his spooky Ring Wraiths are after it!

A so-so fantasy epic (director Ralph Bakshi did this genre much better in Wizards and Fire and Ice), this animated feature flick starts off well enough but feels turgid by cramming too much plot in too little time. We get some nice scope to the battle scenes at the end, but it's too little too late as it finishes up without a compelling cliffhanger.

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The Lord of the Rings (1978)