Khraniteli
| Khraniteli | |
|---|---|
Title screen of the first part | |
| Хранители | |
| Based on | The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Written by | Natalya Serebryakova |
| Story by | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Directed by | Natalya Serebryakova, Costel Tudor Voica |
| Narrated by | Andrei Romanov |
| Music by | Andrei Romanov |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union |
| Original language | Russian |
| Production | |
| Producer | Larisa Lebedeva |
| Cinematography | Anatoliy Korinetskiy |
| Running time | 115 minutes (2 episodes) |
| Production company | Leningrad Television |
| Original release | |
| Release | 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.