OK, so it's not the book. It's still incredible!

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

Ignore the complaints of the anal retentives and fanboys who spit idiocy like, "Well, in Book 1, page 76, paragraph 3 of the first US edition, Frodo didn't say that. He said...blah blah blah blah." It's true that the movie takes some liberties with the text. It's also true that I might not have made some of the same choices had I been making the film myself. But fans of the Ring books should relax and allow themselves to become swept away by this awesome presentation.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the LotR movie we've been waiting all our lives for - for over three hours tonight, I wasn't sitting in a darkened theatre, I was in Middle Earth with the Nine Walkers. And when the lights came back up at the end of this first installment, my daughter summed up the feelings of everyone in the theatre when she said, "It's OVER?? Already?? I don't want to wait a YEAR for the next one!!"