Director Ralph Bakshi was a fan of Led Zeppelin. He asked Led Zeppelin if he could use the band's songs in the 1978 film 'The Lord of the Rings.' The band agreed, but the film's producer couldn't get ...

The animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings released in theaters in 1978. It became a massive box office success, pulling in north of $32 million--roughly eight times the production cost.

Having changed fantasy forever while simultaneously inspiring countless other fantastical worlds and fairy stories, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest literary works of our ...

While it's true that the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies were fantastic, they weren't the first cinematic iteration of the series. The very first recreation of Tolkien's books on screen was the ...