A Thought, A Book, A Dream !!!

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2001)

When I was 9 years old ... I took the Hobbit down from my cousins shelf and read it. From that day on my world changed more than it had ever changed before. Every walk in the woods near my house and every trip to the country became my quest with Bilbo and Gandalf. My heart was with them. My inner belief of the knowledge of good and bad inside me, at such a young age, became an importance to me and an importance to life itself beyond mere mortal imagination. I took down the well thumbed, and well read, Lord of the Rings, and to my sheer joy, embarked on that wondrous journey once again. The film, of course, had much to live up to. Not only had Tolkien managed to conjure up something in my mind that was almost uninterpretable to a screen play, he had instilled an almost unique sense of individuality to the novel that I was concerned, deeply, that it would hardly live up to my expectations. Therefore, I have to admit, that this film was the most imaginative and CORRECT adaptation of a novel that I have ever seen on the screen. Not only did Jackson and Crew recreate the novel, but beautifully recreated for me the childhood world that I had thought lost. This world had everything exactly and perfected from the book.......almost like it was my own mind and imagination that had been projected from my mind onto the big screen. I am usually very critical indeed of wondrous and unique novels being turned out in the cinema, but this admirable film deserves a unilateral 10/10. I could of course criticize the film for a few insignificant things..... but that would be an injustice to what, I am sure, will be the most acclaimed and remarkable film of our time. Sinbad and Jason would be envious but like Gandalf says ...... Sometimes the smallest things have the greatest power .....!!