The greatest fantasy adventure film and book ever

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2002)

I have always been a big fan with myths and magical books and this year was really exciting for me (and for most people)because two of my favourite books were being turned into films and these were Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
Peter Jackson and Chris Columbus most of had a lot of pressure put on there shoulders because of the big fan basis, but I believe that Peter Jackson came out on top because he had the guts to make some major changes (Like Arwen saving Frodo and not Glorfindel, wheres Tom Bombadil and putting the start of the second book to the end of the film).
The film is about the one ring that was made by the Lord Sauron that made him invicible, but during a war in Mordor sauron was defeated and the ring was taken. But after a while the ring was lost and was forgotten about until one day when it end up in the hands of a young hobbit called Frodo Baggins (Elijah Woods).
This part is done very well with the start sequence explaining everything to the viewer, Bilbo Baggins party is also done wonderfully and the shire looks just like how I imagined it.
The introduction of all the main characters was good also, especially Gardalf the Gray who was always my favourite in the book and it stayed the same during the film.
My favourite scene has to be of the deep dark mines when Gardalf really proves his strengh with the evil Balrog, I liked these scenes because they were all exciting and really brought the book alive and they were all full wiith emotion.
The Fellowship of the Ring was the first film that I have seen that has gone over the 3 hours mark and i have not thought "please finish I need to get out of this chair", I would of been willing to sit there for another 3 hours watching the second film or watch the fellowship again.
All the characters were played well with Gardalf being played the best and Ian Mckellen well deseaveing his Oscar nomination. I would have to say the Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins)and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) were the second best in the film and really brought there characters to life that I always hoped for when reading the book.
The Fellowship of the Ring has a great climax that truely beats the Empire Strikes Back and lets hope The Two Towers is as good with the big spider and the many battles.
10/10