A Lost ‘Lord of the Rings’ Adaptation Has Been Found
2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson’s
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The cast is even reuniting for special virtual Q&As this spring. If that wasn’t cause enough to celebrate, 2021 has just given J.R.R. Tolkien fans a legitimate surprise: The discovery of an adaptation of
The Lord of the Rings that was believed lost for decades.
The TV film is titled
Khraniteli, which means “Keepers” in Russian, and it aired a single time in 1991 on Leningrad Television. After that, the movie, which adapts just