The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) double LP featuring four scenes: The Hobbits leaving Hobbiton, The Ringwraiths at Bree, Gandalf and the Balrog, Journey with the Orcs. In 2001, the album was reissued on compact disc, with bonus tracks. The film was originally intended to be distributed as "The Lord of the Rings Part I". According to Bakshi, when he completed the film, United Artists executives told him that they were planning to release the film without indicating that a sequel would follow, because they felt that audiences would not pay to see half of a film: "The Film Book of J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age of 2003, with the release of "The Return of the King". Executive producer, Steve Gray, who had worked on "Final Fantasy VII" and directed "Parasite Eve" for Squaresoft, explained he had wanted to make a "Lord of the Rings" RPG since the 1990s, but had never gotten the chance, until EA acquired the rights to the film trilogy. As the game was under development, various ideas were rejected as the team settled on an approach. For example, initially, the developers planned to have an Active Time Battle combat system, before going with the Conditional Time Battle system. Another rejected idea