I voted a 10 only 'cause there was no 11 or 12 to choose from

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2001)

The music, the scenery, the spoken elvish, the Balrog, the little things that someone who did not love the Trilogy would have forgotten, all combine to make this the only film in my life that I have ever seen three times in a week (and it'll be four times by New Years). 35 years ago when I read it for the trilogy for the first time, I absorbed it in 4 or 5 hour stretches of time and never forgot the beauty of the story. I have read it 2 more times since then and am in the midst of a third - reading LOTR to my daughters. They did a beautiful job bringing this to the screen - and yes, I know they changed some things, but Jackson's vision is consistent and clearly he loves this epic. I am sorry that Tom Bombadil is missing and I harbor the secret hope that when the DVD comes out he will be added back in as part of the directors cut. Now the bad news is that we have to wait a year for TTT! What would you say to starting a campaign to get them to release it earlier!!!