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The Lord of the Rings

Fantasy...beyond your imagination.

1978 · PG · 2h 12m

Directed by Ralph Bakshi

6.6

TMDB audience score
1,105 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won't be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.

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Cast

  • Christopher Guard
    Frodo (voice)

  • William Squire
    Gandalf (voice)

  • Michael Scholes
    Sam (voice)

  • John Hurt
    Aragorn (voice)

  • Simon Chandler
    Merry (voice)

  • Dominic Guard
    Pippin (voice)

  • Michael Graham Cox
    Boromir (voice)

  • Anthony Daniels
    Legolas (voice)

  • David Buck
    Gimli (voice)

  • Norman Bird
    Bilbo (voice)

  • Peter Woodthorpe
    Gollum (voice)

  • Fraser Kerr
    Saruman (voice)

  • Philip Stone
    Theoden (voice)

  • André Morell
    Elrond (voice)

  • Annette Crosbie
    Galadriel (voice)

  • Michael Deacon
    Wormtongue (voice)

  • John Westbrook
    Treebeard (voice)

  • Alan Tilvern
    Innkeeper (voice)