<div dir="ltr"><div>How cool! : )<br></div><div><br></div><div>"A Soviet television adaptation of The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/lord-of-the-rings">Lord of the Rings</a>
thought to have been lost to time was rediscovered and posted on
YouTube last week, delighting Russian-language fans of JRR Tolkien.<p class="gmail-css-6ebghe">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.</p><p class="gmail-css-6ebghe">Aired
10 years before the release of the first instalment of Peter Jackson’s
movie trilogy, the low-budget film appears ripped from another age: the
costumes and sets are rudimentary, the special effects are ludicrous,
and many of the scenes look more like a theatre production than a
feature-length film.</p><p class="gmail-css-6ebghe">The
score, composed by Andrei Romanov of the rock band Akvarium, also lends
a distinctly Soviet ambience to the production, which was reportedly
aired just once on television before disappearing into the archives of
Leningrad Television."</p>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years</a></div></div>