Without a doubt, the best installment in the series.

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2005)

I'll never understand why there is so much hype placed on the other installments of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring gives us the most interesting characters. An untouchable story line. It's the closest to perfection that the lotr series has come. One thing that makes The Fellowship better than the other installments to me was the shortage of fight sequences. The fight sequences killed The Return of the King for me. They just went on and on. It seemed that Peter Jackson just used them to unnecessarily fill up time in the film. However, Fellowship sticks mainly to it's characters, not a lot of cgi battles. We get the best character development in the fellowship, the best acting, best story. The only thing I don't like about Fellowship is that it seems to be a rather poor adaption of the book. The first time I read FOTR by Tolkien, I couldn't even finish it because it was so far from the film. I guess what I was feeling was disgust. I'm going to finish the book one of these days, but as for now?? Fellowship 8/10 The other installments 7/10