Jackson has cinematically matched the genius of JRR Tolkien

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

This film has soul, Character, wonder, scope . Truly a wondrous achievement capturing the spirit of nearly 500 pages of dense text in under 3 hours. In time this masterwork will clearly be on almost everyone's top 100 films, and many top ten lists. If next 2 films match the first will be as beloved as wizard of Oz. Truly magnificent lighting in a bottle.