Very good indeed!

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2002)

I really liked this movie and I have read the books several times and some changes or omissions annoyed me but overall I am very pleased.
A lot of people are under the mistaken idea that the Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, it isn't. Tolkien originally wrote it as a single book but the publishers forced him to divide it into three parts. Because of this there are no midway endings, the story just continues so the fact that the first film ends abruptly is unavoidable, unless you film the entire book or start doing really radical changes. So "Fellowship" is not the first part in a trilogy but rather the first part of one book.
My final comment is that for those, like myself, who were bothered by some of the changes, try a second viewing were you can judge the film by itself and not compare it to the book.