Worth the 14-year wait.

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2001)

Having read "The Hobbit" over 15 times, the first when I was 7, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy over one-and-a-half, lining up to see this movie was both nerve-wracking and euphoric. But without giving away any details, I was unable to move from my seat the whole 3 hours, almost cried once, did cry twice, and could not force myself to leave the theater until the credits were finished rolling. For a Tolkien fan like myself, this was ungodly surreal; for an Elijah Wood fan, this was heart-wrenching; for a fantasy genre fan, this was heaven. Go see it, even if you've never read the books; if the movie itself is worth the 14-year wait, think how amazing the books and their creator are. Rock on, Peter Jackson. Rock on.