Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)

More than two decades before Peter Jackson made the world believe that New Zealand is Middle Earth, animator Ralph Bakshi gave us an ambitious and deeply weird adaptation of Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

Or the first half, at least.

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