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
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This is not Peter Jackson’s
Fellowship of the Ring. A 1991 Russian-language adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s book recently surfaced on YouTube, and it’s to put it mildly a hoot.
Guardian reports that the 1991 film, called
Khraniteli, was a made-for-TV movie that’s believed to be the only LOTR adaptation made in the Soviet Union. It boasts a score by Andrei Romanov of the band Akvarium, which lends a distinctive low-budget-music-video vibe to the opening scenes of badly costumed men pushing their way through spindly trees.
Supposedly,
Khraniteli
only aired once. People knew the film existed, but there was no way to watch it until it appeared, in twoparts, online last week.
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A USSR made-for-TV version of The Fellowship of the Ring has resurfaced after nearly three decades. (New Line Cinema | WingNut Films)
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There’s Gandalf the Grey, but there is also, evidently, Gandalf the Red.
A made-for-TV version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” from the Soviet Union has resurfaced after three decades of gathering dust on the shelf.
The Guardian reports how the Russian-language movie was recently published on YouTube after being unearthed last week. Titled “Khraniteli,” the movie aired in 1991 and is based on Tolkien’s first book in the trilogy, “The Fellowship of the Ring.”
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