IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
We found 3 episodes of IMMP with the tag “tolkien”.
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165: Rankin/Bass' THE RETURN OF THE KING (1980)
March 3rd, 2025 | 58 mins 31 secs
80s, animation, kids, musical, tolkien, tv
Ian and Matthew talk about one of the most bewildering productions from Rankin/Bass, when the skipped past two thirds of THE LORD OF THE RINGS to give us their RETURN OF THE KIBNG
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106: Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)
November 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
70s, animation, fantasy, movie, tolkien
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.
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105: THE HOBBIT (Rankin/Bass, 1977)
November 14th, 2022 | 44 mins 12 secs
70s, animation, kids, musical, tolkien, tv
Tricksey hobbitses! In this episode Ian and Matthew discuss Matthew's junior high Tolkien obsession, and specifically the 1977 Rankin Bass animated version of THE HOBBIT.