Many years later it passes into the hands of his nephew Frodo (Christopher Guard) and Gandalf the wizard (William Squire) learns that Sauron is about to make his move against the One Ring. Hundreds of years later, the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Norman Bird) finds the Ring and takes it home with him to the Shire. The One Ring is eventually found by Déagol and Sméagol, the latter becoming obsessed with the Ring which mutates him into a creature known as Gollum (Peter Woodthorpe) who takes it with him into the Misty Mountains. In that time, Sauron captures the other rings, transforming their owners into hideous Ringwraiths. Dark Lord Sauron makes another, the One Ring, in a bid to seize power but after Sauron is defeated, the Ring falls into the River Anduin where it lies for 2,500 years. What’s left is an odd and frustrating film, reasonably faithful to the source but only half finished, ending the story at the climax of the Battle of Helm’s Deep, and angering many fans who felt cheated by the fact that it was never going to be completed.Ī prologue sets the scene – in the “Second Age” of the fantasy world of Middle-earth, Elven smiths made nine Rings of Power, shared between mortal Men, Dwarf-Lords, and Elf-Kings. He’d originally planned, like Jackson, to make it as a trilogy, later trimmed down to two lengthy films and eventually was let down when distributors United Artists got cold feet and pulled the plug on the planned second film. Ralph Bakshi was less fortunate when tried to adapt the books 20 odd years earlier. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he at least got the job done. Say what you will about Peter Jackson’s sprawling adaptations of J.R.R.
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