Great job Peter Jackson! J. R. R. Tolkien would be proud.

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2008)

In The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring, a hobbit named Frodo Baggins discovers that a ring left to him by his uncle is a dark and powerful weapon being searched for by the Dark Lord Sauron. If Sauron gets the ring back, the world of Middle Earth will end as we know it. Frodo heads out on a journey to the elven city of Rivendell to decide what to do about the ring. A band of nine people leave Rivendell on their way to Mordor to destroy the ring.
I loved this movie because of the plot and the special effects. The special effects are amazing! The make-up effects for the Orcs were incredible. I had a really hard time believing that they were actually just made-up people, not animated. The casting was near to perfect as well.
These movies stayed fairly true to the book, but it left out a few key parts. In the book, it's quite clear that Frodo doesn't leave for about twenty years after Bilbo's party, but the movie makes it look like a few days and the movie completely leaves out the character Tom Bombadil, the one who saved the hobbits from the trees in the Old Forest and one of the only characters completely unaffected by the ring's powers of corruption. Even though they left out an important part of the book, I think that the crew did a fantastic job on this movie. I wish all book-to-movie transitions went this well.