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See old Soviet version of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
A Soviet television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings thought to have been lost to time was rediscovered. The 1991 made-for-TV film, Khraniteli, based on Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, is the only adaptation of his Lord of the Rings trilogy believed to have been made in the Soviet Union.
It is a low-budget film, the costumes and sets are rudimentary, the special effects are ludicrous, and many of the scenes look more like a theater production than a feature-length film, which was reportedly aired just once on television before disappearing into the archives of Leningrad Television.
In the opening song, Romanov sings a rough translation of Tolkien’s description of the origins of the rings of power. The Soviet version includes some plot elements left out of Jackson’s $93m blockbuster, including an appearance by the character Tom Bombadil.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years
It is a low-budget film, the costumes and sets are rudimentary, the special effects are ludicrous, and many of the scenes look more like a theater production than a feature-length film, which was reportedly aired just once on television before disappearing into the archives of Leningrad Television.
In the opening song, Romanov sings a rough translation of Tolkien’s description of the origins of the rings of power. The Soviet version includes some plot elements left out of Jackson’s $93m blockbuster, including an appearance by the character Tom Bombadil.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years
Use generated Russian captions with autotranslate added to get a kind of English subtitles!
