Great adaptation

Rating: 9/10 (15 August 2014)

Peter Jackson successfully brought one of my favorite novels to life on the big screen. The cast is great, just how I imagined them. The action is well directed, and while certain plot points were left out from the book (Tom Bombadil), they aren't really necessary to make this movie what it is. Most book-movie adaptations don't stay even this faithful to the original source material. Every single character is, no joke, exactly how I imagined them when I first read the novel. The Uruk-hai look formidable and intimidating enough to take on the heroes. I was sad that Boromir died (though I knew it was coming) and that's thanks to Sean Bean's incredible portrayal. The movie's been out for some time now and it just gets better each time I watch it.