The animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings released in theaters in 1978. It became a massive box office success, pulling in north of $32 million--roughly eight times the production cost.

While it's true that the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies were fantastic, they weren't the first cinematic iteration of the series. The very first recreation of Tolkien's books on screen was the ...

Having changed fantasy forever while simultaneously inspiring countless other fantastical worlds and fairy stories, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest literary works of our ...