1977’s The Hobbit. Animated for Rankin/Bass by Topcraft, the anime studio that Hayao Miyazaki would eventually call home, the 1977 film was adapted by Romeo Muller (the writer behind all the ...

The Hobbit collection is a three-part epic fantasy-adventure film directed and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name. The trilogy of films are ...

The heroes of The Hobbit animated film. Rankin-Bass And did we mention the music? It is a Rankin/Bass film, it’s gotta have music, after all. The soundtrack contains ten songs written by Tolkien ...

During the 2004 Oscar season, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King pulled off a rare clean sweep of every Academy Award it was nominated for, including Best Picture and Best Director for ...

The first Middle-earth adaptation was the Rankin/Bass animated television film "The Hobbit" from 1977. Unlike Peter Jackson's ...

2024's animated feature film, The War of the Rohirrim, is set 183 years before The Lord of the Rings trilogy — and therefore 123 years before The Hobbit. Like the live-action trilogies ...

Hera takes action in "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim," in theaters December 13. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 (UPI) --The Lord of the Rings: The War ...

The new animated fantasy film, which features the voice of the ... expected to be a disaster for its studio New Line Cinema. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 74 per cent The Hobbit: The ...

But that is by no means the first film to adapt the world and works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Between 1977 and 1980, three different animated productions adapted—roughly—the entirety of The Hobbit ...