The Lord of the Rings Ring" and part of "The Two Towers". A three-issue comic book version of the movie was also published in Europe (but not printed in English), with illustrations by Luis Bermejo. When Bakshi's investors shied away of financing the second film that would complete the story, the remainder of the story was covered in an animated television special by Rankin-Bass. Stylistically, the two segments are very different. The second and more commercially successful adaptation was Peter Jackson's live action "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, produced by New Line Cinema and released in three instalments as "" (2001), "" (2002),
Music of The Lord of the Rings film series The book was released with a companion CD, "The Rarities Archives". The CD has 21 tracks of previously unreleased music created for the films, as well as an audio interview with Howard Shore. The scores and soundtrack albums of the film trilogy have won several awards: ! colspan="3" style="background:#fff179;"| "" ! colspan="3" style="background:#fff179;"| "" ! colspan="3" style="background:#fff179;"| "" Following the theatrical release of each of the films, Howard Shore reworked the music from the films and original soundtrack releases into movements for the concert hall, eventually creating the complete "The Lord of the Rings Symphony", a more structured six-movement work