The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring may have been the first live-action adaptation of author J.R.R Tolkien's iconic fantasy novels, but it wasn't the first that cameras began rolling during a trip to Middle-earth. That honor falls to "Khraniteli," aka The Protectors, a low-budget adaptation of Fellowship of the Ring that was broadcast in 1991, mere months before the Soviet Union was dissolved.
A two-hour production split into two parts, The Protectors remained unheard of for almost 30 years until footage of it was uploaded online by its producer 5TV, formerly known as Leningrad TV. If the entire TV special looks like a hastily thrown-together effort, that's because it genuinely was, as the adaptations cast and crew had to film The Protectors on a tight budget in a mere week.
"We had almost no budget, no costumes, and almost no time. I was pleasantly surprised we were able to do so much with so little," Georgiy Shtil, who played Bilbo Baggins, said in a detailed interview Variety.
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