The Middle-earth franchise would continue to grow with The Hobbit trilogy ... Ralph Bakshi created his very own animated movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's famous book series. Bakshi's Lord of ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

This weird prequel plucks a tale from The Lord of the Rings’ bulging appendices – but at least it’s more watchable than The Hobbit films ...

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 ...