A forgotten animated battle scene hints at alternative visions of Tolkien’s epic saga without revealing all its secrets.

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Eventually, the wizard defeats the creature and transforms into Gandalf the White. In the 1978 animated film, there is a deleted scene depicting the battle, though with far less epic scale.