The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Review

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2015)

The film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, was overall an outstanding movie. There were a couple of aspects that could have been portrayed a bit better, but everyone has there own vision. The start of the film was okay, the Shire shown was wonderful but there was a couple of actions that were included from outside the text that did not seem necessary to include. You can see the amount of detail put into the film just from watching the beginning including the clothing, decorations, and equipment used. The plot flows nicely following some of the main points from the novel. The journey to Bree and actions that took place in The Prancing Pony look fantastic, but there was some key actions that did not occur. For example at the inn the people in the common room tell Frodo to get up and sing them a song while that happens he slips on the ring but in the film he never sings, the ring just slips out and he catches it on his finger while everyone watches him. I enjoyed most of the film but when you read the text before hand there is little key points that do not seem to happen in the movie which did bug me a little. In my opinion I didn't like the way the Hobbit goblins were portrayed , they were a bit freaky to look at while trying to enjoy the film. I disliked how Hobbit goblins just kept coming after one had just been shown they would just scream and get out of the scene fast. Another thing that hurt the film a bit was that extra scenes that were added for example Aragorn and Arewn's love story, that probably took up about five minutes of the film that could have been used to depict other important key facts. The characters physicality was incredible,but the personality for some of the characters ruined the way the characters personality was described in the book. I am surprised of how much was put into the scripts in order to get the movie flowing. Against all odds, the film does justice to Tolkien. For my first time reading and watching The Fellowship of the Ring I really enjoyed both and would recommend watching it.