Tolkien Movies (and Audio) You Might Not Know

by Hawke — published Oct 13, 2017 10:05 PM, last modified Jul 03, 2018 08:32 AM

We (many of us) already know about the Rankin/Bass and Bakshi films in the 1970s, and of course the Peter Jackson movies in the early 2000s. But did you know about he ones in the mid 1980s and early 1990s from Russia and Finland?

Tolkien Movies (and Audio) You Might Not Know

In addition to failed attempts at films (some scary renditions, including The Beatles), the highly sexualized version that rolled into the Excalibur movie, there are released versions on Soviet-era Russian TV, and Finnish TV!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_in_film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1985_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobitit (1993)

Finnish Hobitit (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_5pwxCkWzY

Russian Hobbit (1985)

https://youtu.be/XALj24n1F2k

THE HOBBIT by Gene Deitch (1966)

https://youtu.be/SZlARya43Dw

Mr Bliss

Mr Bliss, in Russian (with Brazilian subtitles) (discussed in our March 2016 meeting: http://www2.tolkienscholars.org/meeting-notes/meeting-notes-3-2016 ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YicL2F6sXw

Also worth mentioning, as we have at many of our meetings and moots (conventions):

More Recent Fan Films

The Hunt for Gollum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaakJk9vR7U

Born of Hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qINwCRM8acM

Delete Bakshi Scenes

Gandalf Fights Balrog

https://www.facebook.com/RalphBakshi/videos/vb.313202142148106/433891726745813/?type=2&theater

Some Additional Fan Films

Ainulindalë

A fan CGI rendering of the making of the world. Using the audiobook as narration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7a6yUc8zo

Dagor Dagorath

By the same fan above, a CGI rendering of a fan's view of the Valar fighting Morgoth, and the havoc wreaked upon Middle-earth. And many other snippets loosely based on The Silmarillion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovvl2xBUt1w

Beren & Luthien (Live-Action, French)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tocTbOojM5M

Ranger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf3Kit2V0CI

loosely inspired by Beren and Luthien

Tolkien's Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTCc6Z3dAZI

Lewis and Tolkien Debate Myths and Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzBT39gx-TE

Documentaries

Lost Tolkien Recording from Rotterdam, March 28th, 1958

http://www.tolkien.ro/blog/2015/01/j-r-r-tolkien-reveals-true-meaning-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-in-unearthed-audio-recording/

Information from that event: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_J.R.R._Tolkien_Centenary_Conference

Tolkien's letter about it: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_206

http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2014/07/long-lost-recording-of-tolkien-whats-it-worth-to-you/

Does John D. Rateliff know anything more about it? All of the links to it are defunct, as is MiddleEarthNetwork.com also defunct. http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-tolkien-audio-rotterdam-speech.html

This is on a "sketchy" site, but the original appears to have been scrubbed, so this is what I can find so far:

https://youtu.be/NtWmPIeqJxM

Additional links to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g5npSwWMsw

Tolkien audio from 1929?

http://www.thetolkienist.com/2015/01/16/listen-to-rare-tolkien-recording-at-the-tobacconists-and-help-the-british-library-save-its-audio-collection/