This couldn't have been made any better!

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2003)

Before I saw this movie, I knew vaguely about the world of 'Middle-Earth' and what happened in The Lord of the Rings. After seeing it, it has driven me to finding out everything about Tolkien and this universe!

It is the best movie I have seen in a long time, and the second one is even better! The acting, and directing, the music, everything is the best it could possibly be! Peter Jackson did great on this movie, and I'm planning to see many of his movies in the future!

The story is based around the one ring, made by the evil lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor. This ring could give him the power to enslave the world forever! But when Sauron was destroyed, the ring, after many centuries, found it's way into the hands of a Hobbit, (small human-like creatures), called Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo kept this ring for 60 years, with no-one knowing about it. Then his long-time friend Gandalf the Grey, a wizard, suspects that the ring has re-woken. Bilbo decides, after his 111 birthday, (which even for a hobbit, whose life-span is over 100, is getting on a bit), that he must leave Hobbiton, (the village where Hobbits live), and the Shire, (where Hobbition is.) He leaves the ring with his nephew and heir Frodo Baggins, along with his house. Gandalf releases that the ring has to be destroyed now or never. But to destroy it, they would have to go for many hundreds of miles to Mordor, and throw it into the fires of Mount Doom. Frodo volunteers to take the ring, seems it is his now. But he doesn't go alone. He takes his best friends Samwise, (or Sam), Gaggee, Meridoc, (or Merry), Brandybuck, and Perigrin, (or Pippin), Took. Meanwhile, Gandalf goes to Isengard to see the head of his counsel, Saurman the White, only to find out that he has turned evil, and now wants to join Sauron in his quest to find the ring. Eventfully, the hobbits and Gandalf see each other again in the elf city of Rivendell, where the Fellowship of the Ring, (hence the title), is formed. The Fellowship includes the 4 hobbits, Gandalf, 2 men, (Aragorn and Boromir), 1 dwarf, (Gimli), and 1 elf, (Legolas). The soul purpose of the Fellowship is to protect the Ring bearer, (Frodo), and make sure the quest to destroyed the ring does not fail.
This film was done the best it could be done! I couldn't imagine someone else doing a better re-make of it!
Well, an excellent book makes an excellent film!
I give this film, a non-mistakable: 10/10
~Becki