Ed MorrisseyPosted at 7:01 pm on April 5, 2021
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And you thought the Arwen sequences in Peter Jackson’s
Lord of the Rings trilogy were slow. Last week, an unknown archivist in Russia managed to dig up and digitize the Soviet adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s epic saga, which might rival the 1977
Star Wars Holiday Special for production values. All that’s missing is Bea Arthur and a cantina.
Actually, Bea might be in the birthday-party sequence:
The Guardian gives the background on the discovery of this gem:
A Soviet television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings thought to have been lost to time was rediscovered and posted on YouTube last week, delighting Russian-language fans of JRR Tolkien.