The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring is a 3 hour fantasy epic based off of the first part of J.R.R Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. I would recommend that you read the book first by the way. Of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring is my personal favorite (I’m writing this after I watched the trilogy) because I thought it captured Tolkien’s vision the best of the movies, and it also followed along with the book and how Tolkien wrote the book more so then its sequels, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
The basic plot tells of Frodo, a little hobbit, who must deliver a magic, powerful ring to Mt. Doom and destroy it in its fires (the only place where it can be destroyed) before its evil creator, Sauron, can reclaim it and rule Middle- Earth. Frodo is joined by several other characters, humans, dwarves, elves and other hobbits, to help him in his quest to destroy the one ring.
The script captures if in a more rather modern sense how the book was written and the acting is very well done, and it portrays all of the characters, hobbits, elves, dwarves and humans alike, very evenly. While the movie is 3 hours long, it is quickly paced for an epic and seems like only 2/3 of the actual length.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the best of the newer fantasy epics. The project had been trying to get into friction since about 1990, with Peter Jackson finally taking the director’s chair. He did a good job, staying true to Tolkien’s masterpiece work and paying attention to detail just how Tolkien wrote the books.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the most faithful adaptation of Tolkien’s book, and, while it probably mostly has but not completely captured Tolkien’s vision (which would probably be impossible), this fantasy epic tells the story of unlikely allies who joined together to defeat the common enemy.
Grade: A
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