The Return of the King (1980)

Directors

Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Cast

Orson Bean, Theodore Bikel, William Conrad, John Huston, Roddy McDowall, Brother Theodore, Paul Frees, Casey Kasem, Sonny Melendrez, Nellie Bellflower

The story

Gandalf briefly narrates the background. Then, at Bilbo Baggins's 129th birthday party in Rivendell, his nephew Frodo explains why he is missing a finger from his hand while the Minstrel of Gondor sings a ballad that tells the story of the quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. In Mordor, Frodo's friend and companion, Samwise Gamgee, bears the Ring in Frodo's absence as he ventures to rescue Frodo from the Orc fortress of Cirith Ungol.

Genres

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