A Link to of the King is an animated adaptation of the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien which was released by Rankin/Bass as a TV special in 1980. It has since been freed in VHS and DVD.

A motion picture was created per equivalent team which experienced worked on the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit.

Orson Bean returned as a voice of the older Bilbo Baggins, when well as that of the story's hero, Frodo Baggins. John Huston wwhen back as well, as a dear charming Gandalf, and co-starring by having the children were: William Conrad as Denethor, Roddy McDowall as Samwise Gamgee, Theodore Bikel as Aragorn the King himself, and reprising his darkly spoken role of Gollum was the crossly unsafe Brother Theodore. Rankin/Bass stalwart Paul Frees replaced Cyril Ritchard as a voice of Elrond; Casey Kasem, best known for his role when Shaggy around Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, was Merry with Sonny Melendrez as Pippin; Nellie Bellflower as Eowyn; and Glenn Yarbrough returned when chief vocaliser, billed on this button when just 'a Minstrel of Gondor'.

A film picked higher around in which Ralph Bakshi's animated adaption of The Lord of the Rings had left off in 1978, but was filmed in a very different style, and tied in more with Rankin/Bass's earlier The Hobbit than The Lord of the Rings. Many significant plot elements were skipped between a prevent of The Lord of the Rings & a beginning of The Go to of the King.