Speaking of TLOTR,
I'd have to include the animated version from 1978...
( Mr. Tea burying dead greyhounds without a licence since, Fri 6 Aug 2004, 11:24, archived)

Yup. Pretty fair
Although the animated Return of the King from 1980 is infinitely worse.
( TV's Nosemonkey, Fri 6 Aug 2004, 11:27, archived)