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),
The History of The Lord of the Rings Ring"; and Book VI, "The End of the Third Age". The title "The Return of the Shadow" was a discarded title for Volume I. Three of the titles of the volumes of "The History of The Lord of the Rings" were also used as book titles for the seven-volume edition of "The Lord of the Rings": "The Treason of Isengard" for Book III, "The War of the Ring" for Book V, and "The End of the Third Age" for Book VI. There is an inscription in Fëanorian characters (Tengwar, an alphabet Tolkien devised for the High-Elves) on the title pages