• Rating:
• Genre: Fantasy
• Movie Type: Children's Fantasy, Sword-and-Sorcery
• Themes: Wizards and Magicians, Race Against Time, Heroic Mission
• Director: Jules Bass
• Main Cast: Orson Bean
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: US
• Run Time: 120 minutes

Plot

The second of Rankin/Bass' animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to defeat the evil wizard Sauron. Frodo, nephew of The Hobbit protagonist Bilbo Baggins, vows to destroy the Ring, even if it costs him his own life. He carries the Ring to the volcanic innards of Mount Doom. All this he does on behalf of good-guy Aragon, who will never be able to escape the dreaded land of Sauron so long as the Ring retains its evil powers. Orson Bean, who'd been the voice of Bilbo Baggins in the 1977 Hobbit cartoon special, returns to portray Frodo. Return of the King originally aired May 11, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Orson Bean - Frodo Baggins

Theodore Bikel
Casey Kasem
Roddy McDowall - Samwise Gamgee
Sonny Melendrez
William Conrad
Paul H. Frees
John Huston - Gandalf
Glenn Yarbrough

Credit

Jules Bass - Director; Maury Laws - Composer (Music Score); Arthur Rankin, Jr. - Director; J.R.R. Tolkien - Book Author

Similar Movies

The Dark Crystal; The Flight of Dragons; The Hobbit; Labyrinth; Legend; The Lord of the Rings; The Black Cauldron; Merlin; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers