how can you have a one line summary for this film?

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2004)

**SPOILERS maybe**
I've always loved Tolkien, having really re-discovered him at University. Yet, I didn't realise how much I loved LOTR until I saw this film. Which is very unusual for me, being someone who tends to prefer books to films. Whatever. The Fellowship of the Ring is a beautifully crafted interpretation of Tolkiens vision of Middle Earth. It looks beautiful, sounds beautiful and even feels beautiful, if that's possible. There aren't many films where you can suspend disbelief entirely the way you do with the LOTR films. I can't count how many times I have set out to watch this film and look at aspects of it's production - the relative sizes of the different races, the use of CGI - yet every time I just get sidetracked by the story and lose interest in the how and the why. The first time I saw a picture of the cast onset in costume it totally threw me to see them in 'real' sizes. I was absolutely convinced that the hobbits really were that small.
The casting was spot on, the acting superb, I could go on and on and on but that would probably get boring. Of the three films, this does feel like the longest, but my theory is that that is because of the nature of time in the film - FOTR takes place of a period of several months. The principal action in TT and ROTK is much more compressed. Of course there are lots of things missing, and Tom Bombadil was sadly missed, but overall I can't see how this film could have been any better. And anyone who hasn't seen the extended edition is missing out. It enhances the experience considerably