Khraniteli

Khraniteli
Title screen of the first part
Хранители
Based onThe Fellowship of the Ring
Written byNatalya Serebryakova
Story byJ. R. R. Tolkien
Directed byNatalya Serebryakova, Costel Tudor Voica
Narrated byAndrei Romanov
Music byAndrei Romanov
Country of originSoviet Union
Original languageRussian
Production
ProducerLarisa Lebedeva
CinematographyAnatoliy Korinetskiy
Running time115 minutes (2 episodes)
Production companyLeningrad Television
Original release
Release1991 (1991)

Khraniteli (Russian: Хранители, lit.'Guardians [of the Ring]') is a Soviet television play miniseries based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. It was broadcast once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost before being rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and Goldberry that were omitted from the 1978 film and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy.