an enchanting and breathtaking fantasy

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2019)

Swiftly paced and fully developed, grand-scaled yet intimate, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring provides an excellent start to a series of films that would only increase in stakes, quality, and craftsmanship. From its beginnings in the Shire, to its unceasingly dangerous world of orcs, goblins and dark forces, the film increases in spectacle, glory, and engagement as it progresses. It is a remarkable first chapter of one of cinema's most remarkable series, and it is a beautiful imagining of one of fiction's greatest tales.