Good film, good treatment, good job well done.

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2001)

A very good film that dealt well with some of the problems of filming this book - thousands of years of history, dozens of important characters, and the consequences of being up against my imagination, and that of everyone else who has read the books. The characterisations were, in the main, spot on, many of the scenes were very faithful, and the movie can be forgiven those parts that were skimped or missed on the grounds that very few people would sit through a six hour film just to check everything was there, page by page. Some of my favorite parts weren't done quite the way I was expecting, such as parts of the third chapter and Lothlorien, while Moria was far more open space than I had expected, especially at the western end. The setting was superb, and fitted the book well - care has obviously been taken in finding the right spot for each shot. Even the outside scenes that looked as though they were shot in studio had a feel of wide open space around the setting. Of course, the big problem is waiting two years for the end.