What a great effort by Peter Jackson!

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2002)

After repeated viewing I find Peter Jackson has done a wonderful job portraying a work I feel is far too complex for this medium. I don't believe he could've done any better without making a 7 hour movie, and that would've been for The Fellowship of the Ring. Good job Peter.
BTW, the casting was magnificent.
My chief complaint (very minor) is that Tolkien spent years working on the language of the book and I feel it is almost sacrilegious or disrespectful to have utterances on the screen that he did not pen since so much thought was given to each word (unlike my crude keyboard).