I'm speechless

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2003)

And here our thought this was going to flop, The Fellowship of the Ring is pure entertainment in cinematic history. Even with a 2 hour and 58 minute running time, it certainly puts together the finest of the Tolkien novels. It has it's flaws like no Tom Bombadil, some of the sound effects, and no Old Forest but it works. The acting in this is the most successful in this, aside from the spectular special effects and epic cinematography.
The best characters developed are Boromir, Aragorn, Frodo, and Sam, all performed by Sean Bean, Viggo Mortenson, Eljiah Wood and Sean Astin.
Boromir is the captain of Gondor, we see more character development in him in the second film. Aragorn who is nicknamed Strider shows up at the Prancing Pony. Frodo is the cousin to Bilbo Baggins and Sam is his gardener and sidekick.
The story is kind of like a road movie. These hobbits in whom like to leave in peace start from the Shire and then end up in Emyn Muil, which is very close to Mordor in Middle Earth Geography. But, the movie begins with a prologue that is so amazing. We first meet the villain, the keeper of the ring Sauron, but Isildur, who was the first king and the last alliance of elves plan to attack Sauron and his orcs. Sauron's hand get caught off and for most of the movie, we don't see him in physical form.
Director Peter Jackson outshines his direction, in what could've been a screw up.
The running time is perfect. It doesn't slow down, it doesn't drag. It pretty much flys by.
There are some scenes in this movie that are so rough, it almost killed me and jerked me around, in a good way for quite some time. For example when the Lurtz shoots the bow and arrow into Boromir. As well as Gandalf's fall.
Whether this film was best picture or not, it should've won more Oscars than it got.
To sum it up, the first part of the lord of the rings is fine. Part 2, gets better.