True to the spirit of the book.

Rating: 9/10 (9 January 2002)

I enjoyed this movie a lot, and was thrilled that it was true to the spirit of the original novels. Reducing this epic to around 9 hours of film (total of all three movies) will require that some things are left out. That is inevitable. But even with some details removed, the nature of the struggle that these characters endured remains in the movie.
Congrats to everyone that worked on it.