Beagle, based on an earlier draft by Chris Conkling.Īlthough Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings was a financial success, it received mixed reactions from critics, and hostility from disappointed viewers who felt that it was incomplete there was no official sequel to cover the remainder of the story. The film features the voices of William Squire, John Hurt, Michael Graham Cox, and Anthony Daniels.
It uses a hybrid of traditional cel animation and rotoscoped live action footage. The film is notable for its extensive use of rotoscoping, a technique in which scenes are first shot in live-action, then traced onto animation cels. He had made several attempts to produce The Lord of the Rings as an animated film before producer Saul Zaentz and distributor United Artists provided funding. Set in Middle-earth, the film follows a group of fantasy races- Hobbits, Men, an Elf, a Dwarf and a wizard-who form a fellowship to destroy a magical ring made by the Dark Lord Sauron.īakshi encountered Tolkien's writing early in his career.
Tolkien's high fantasy epic novel of the same name, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring and some material from both books of The Two Towers. The Lord of the Rings is a 1978 American-British animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi.
