an amazing adaptation of a great novel

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2015)

My class read The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and when I saw the movie, I have to say I was thoroughly impressed. The movie helped me to further understand the book and to further my liking of the book as well. This movie would be a perfect thing if it weren't for one thing. That is the changing of certain aspects of the novel. Some of these that were the worst in my opinion were the exclusion of Tom Bombadil, the rewrite of Arwen, and the extended ending. The ending of this movie extends to the ending to the second book in the series which wasn't necessary, as the original ending would suffice as an adequate cliff hangar to keep the viewer interested in the movie. With the time that was taken to include the second book could have easily been enough to include Tom Bombadil to make the movie even more accurate. The rewrite of Arwen is her change from a non-speaking role in the book to an important speaking role in the movie. The special effects in this movie were amazing given it was made in 2001. Overall though, this was a very enjoyable movie that stayed fairly true to the original text.