Five things to do in Brooklyn this week!

Friday

Jan. 23

Sneaky little Hobbitses

There is one film to rule them all! Long before the bloated Peter Jackson trilogy, Brooklyn’s greatest animator Ralph Bakshi created his own “The Lord of the Rings” film. And he did it for $281 million less and with 425 fewer minutes, too. Nitehawk Cinema will screen his version on Jan. 23 and 24, with a live score provided by metal band Black Lodge.

Midnight at Nitehawk Cinema [136 Metropolitan Ave. between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street in Williamsburg, (718) 384–3980, www.niteh‌awkci‌nema.com]. $16.

Saturday

Jan. 24

True blue

Australia Day is actually on Jan. 26, but it is not a national holiday in this country, so Greenpoint’s best bar named after a member of Van Halen, the Diamond, is celebrating early. There will be Australian movies on the telly (and also “Xanadu,” starring Aussie Olivia Newton-John) and Tuck Shop meat pies.

3–8 pm at the Diamond [43 Franklin St. between Calyer and Quay streets in Greenpoint, (718) 383–5030, www.thedi‌amond‌brook‌lyn.com]. Free, pies $5.

Sunday

Jan. 25

Feeling sheepish

This one is for ewe. Ring in the Year of the Sheep with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s annual Lunar New Year Celebration at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to the regular troupe, there will be members of the Beijing Dance Academy and music from the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York.

The original and the best: The Ralph Bakshi’s animated “The Lord of the Rings” at Nitehawk Cinema on Jan. 23 and 24.

3 pm at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College [2900 Campus Rd. between Amersfort Place and Kenilworth Place in Flatbush, (718) 951–4500, www.brook‌lynce‌nter.com]. $25.

Monday

Jan. 26

Dance dance Restoration

Ballet dancer Misty Copeland — the only African-American soloist at the American Ballet Theatre — will pirouette into Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration to discuss and sign copies of her memoir “Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina”

7 pm at Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration (1368 Fulton St. between Brooklyn and New York avenues in Bedford–Stuyvesant, www.green‌light‌books‌tore.com). Free, $18.50 for guaranteed seat and copy of book.

Thursday

Jan. 29

Park life

Love Prospect Park? Of course you do. Find out all about the two guys who designed it when Brooklyn Brainery hosts a talk on the life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Apparently they also designed some other park in Manhattan. We’ve never heard of it.

6:30 pm at Brooklyn Brainery [90 Underhill Ave. between Sterling and St. Johns Places in Prospect Heights, (347) 292–7246, www.brook‌lynbr‌ainer‌y.com]. $9.