J.R.R Tolkien would have been so proud.

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2017)

If you never had the opportunity to read the book of the same title then this film will seduce you enough to read the great works of Tolkien himself.
The book was written by Tolkien after having grown up in Birmingham after emigrating with his mother and younger brother. Tolkien was the master of fantasy literature, his mind brought alive a world in which good and evil, dark and light could easily exist within our times.
Peter Jackson took the book and assembled a high calibre cast, he took the story apart, supported it with a dramatic music score that heightened your senses whilst sat in your seat. The adaptation was magnificent, it drove many of us film fans to the cinemas in droves globally, we demanded more and Jackson delivered Tolkien's Middle Earth alive.
The casting of Elijiah Wood as 'Frodo' and Ian McKellen as 'Gandalf' galvanised the desire to see good triumph, against all the odds, over evil. As you watch, the characteristics of all the main characters are brought alive as you'd have imagined Tolkien would have done himself.
The length of many films now falls shy of two hours but the Lord of the Rings trilogy held the most impatient of film lovers lusting for more. My home town, Birmingham, inspired Tolkien as a young boy and his creativity by the wonders of it's natural beauty. Many tourists came to my home town feeling the magic that brought us together to love Tolkien himself.
This film (and its sequels) brought a greater appreciation of literature to us all, in fact inspiring so many of us to read and imagine so much more.