Excellent - the best literary adaptation I've seen.

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2001)

As long as you regard it as an adaptation, this is just truly an amazing work. I don't think there's ever been a movie that is simply as...epic as this.
A "purist" will find some things to nitpick, and not every scene was adapted the way I would choose to - but every scene made sense; the work holds true to the spirit of the novel remarkably.
Effects were amazing, acting superb, and the score was one of the best I've ever heard.
People have compared it to Star Wars and various other classics, but I'm not sure that Fellowship isn't as unprecedented as Star Wars was in its day.