The Return of the King (1980 Animation Film)

The Return of the King (also known as The Return of the King: A Story of the Hobbits) is a 1980 animated musical fantasy television film created by Rankin/Bass and Topcraft. It is an adaptation of the 1955 high fantasy novel The Return of the King, being the third and final volume of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, and is a sequel to the 1977 film The Hobbit.

The film is often mistaken as a sequel to Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film The Lord of the Rings. After Rankin/Bass became defunct in 1987, Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the special for home video distribution and chose to market the film, along with The Hobbit, as instalments of an animated Tolkien trilogy, with Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings (by then also owned by Warner Bros., from United Artists) acting as the middle chapter. This false promotion led to rumours that Rankin/Bass had originally decided to produce The Return of the King upon hearing that Bakshi's sequel to The Lord of the Rings had been cancelled. However, Rankin/Bass had always planned on making The Return of the King as a follow-up to their production of The Hobbit, even before the release of Bakshi's film.

The voice cast & Characters:
Aragorn – Theodore Bikel
Bilbo – Orson Bean
Denethor – William Conrad
Elrond – Paul Frees
Éowyn – Nellie Bellflower
Frodo – Orson Bean[4]
Gandalf – John Huston
Gollum – Brother Theodore (credited under Theodore)
Merry – Casey Kasem
Pippin – Sonny Melendrez
The Mouth of Sauron – Don Messick
Sam – Roddy McDowall
Théoden – Don Messick
Easterling – Don Messick
Orc – Paul Frees
Uruk-hai – Paul Frees
Lord of the Nazgul – John Stephenson
Gondorian Guard – John Stephenson
The Minstrel – Glenn Yarbrough

Related Movies:
1. The Lord Of The Rings (1978 Animation Film)
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