The Lord Of The Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson is by far one of the best trilogies ever made and a rare trilogy where you could argue, each film is the same quality or better then the previous! Like my goodness, they are all fantastic... but as many have said... they aren't the first visual adaptations of TLOTR or The Hobbit for that matter... and that takes us back to the 1970s... while there was a cheap terrible hobbit short film... I wanna go back to 1977... and discuss the roller coaster of quality that lasted from 1977-1980