in spite of what some of the other user comment state and this film and make for tv in 1980 and have nothing to do with the never finish lord of the ring movie by bahksi from 1978. that be and nothing except that it try to tell the rest of the story . unfortunately bahksi do exactly half of the story and so when the return of the king continue with the last and third part and some of the most important piece of the story be miss . bahksi leave most of the story intact but have such a bad result that he never finish the movie while peter jackson have nice picture but he actually get an oscar for torture a great story into something much less while the rankin bass team manage to do both represent they kill the story and it do not even look good . the voice over could have be good but they take far too much time and they be too pretentious . the cast of cartoon character . sam look like a potato and bilbo like a granny and elrond be a christmas tree and the nazgûl be akin to skeletors and gollum be a toad . only aragorn look like something decent . there be only two soldier and only two orks and just clone a lot until there be an army of the two of them . and also there be some strange mistake in the story logic and one example ( no spoiler ) that frodo and sam spend several day wait for aragorn to charge the black gate . and the song . good not mention with one strange exception . this movie will always come last with a great distance after all the other adaptation ever make of tolkien work .