Read it in 1969 and since. Film amazingly like what I had in mind.

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2002)

I think you have to have read the book to appreciate the underlying story. I was taken back in time as I watched each scene playing out what I saw in my mind when I first read the book back in 1969. The natural scenery and the computer graphics created a Middle Earth worthy of the sixties scene I grew up in. And the way the two strands of culture - the low Hobbit with its earthy community humour, and the high Elvish with its cool altruism - was carried over to the film so well. All round an excellent film - and two more to come!