the citizen kane of fantasy films

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2020)

The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring is without doubt the best movie of 2001 , it has everything you need to make a great fantasy movie, the film's plot starts out with showing the second age in middle earth were the dwarves, men and elves get introduced to rings by Sauron who then forges his own ring to rule them all. which then results in a disaster, he uses it to take power so he can take over middle earth, he summons many servants including, orcs and his own wraiths. many of his servants attack lands and burn down villages capturing and killing people. nearly making the whole land under shadow , but then an alliance of men, and elves forms and they go fight off the orcs in middle earth , where they use archers and warriors, then Sauron himself comes and attacks the men, and then a man named Isildur who is the son of the king gets wounded with his father lying dead he takes his sword and defeats Sauron by cutting off his fingers, he is then told by the elf lord Elrond (played by Hugo weaving) to take the ring to the volcano mount doom to destroy it but Isildur easily falls under corruption of the ring and refuses to destroy it, the film is also starting with a narration of how the ring passed on to many others who also fall under its spell, it starts when Isildur got killed by remaining orcs, and there the ring falls under water and years later it is taken by a creature named gollum who calls it precious and he used it to disappoint his friends and relatives who later reject him out of the family , he then retreats to the mountain where he had lived over the thousand years , and many have thought of the ring as lost until 60 years later it has been found whether it was gollum or bilbo baggins played by ian holm who the ring is later carried by after when gollum lost the ring, then after the years pass bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday, where his nephew frodo baggins (played by Elljah wood) reads a book and then sees Gandalf (played by Ian mckellan) and meets him for a ride. and later drops Frodo off at his home. then the party of bilbo's birthday is celebrated, Biblo Baggins gives a speech where he then puts the ring on to do a trick on his peers, his neighbors, and fellow hobbit friends, and as he Disappears all the other hobbits gasp and are frightened to see how Biblo Disappeared, he retreats to his home where Gandalf shows up and then criticizes him for using the ring in front of the others, bilbo then argues with him but tells him he is trying to help him by telling him to leave the ring behind , bilbo agrees and leaves being told that he has to go live with the elves for a while, Gandalf then looks at the ring trying to find out what has gone wrong with it and how it is causing problems, Frodo himself comes into the house to see bilbo, and finds the ring on the floor, he then meets Gandalf again. Gandalf then tells Frodo to keep it secret and keep it safe. while then he goes to find in a library about how the ring was used and what it has been used for. he comes back and tells Frodo more of what the ring is and why it is not safe to show it to others , he then talks about that it belong to Sauron and that he has returned and is trying to find is ring by sending orcs and his own Ringwraiths also known as the Nazgull who left minus Morgul, while gollum has also been found by the orcs who are torturing him so they can find out where the ring is and he tells them that it is at the shire and Baggins holds it , Gandalf also tells Frodo he saw him and says he doesn't know how long they were torturing him but that he mentioned where the ring is , Frodo then realizes that it will bring those servants to shire, he offers Gandalf the ring but refuses explaining that he cannot have it because it can corrupt easily and Gandalf is a powerful wizard with lots of knowledge and that if he carries the ring he can become bad easily and join Sauron, and it could make the evil most likely to win. Gandalf then explains it to Frodo. and he says that the ring cannot stay in the shire, Gandalf agrees with him and tells Frodo to leave the shire and retreat to Bree, then Frodo's friend and gardener Samwise Gamgee later hears Gandalf and Frodo speaking about the ring and how it came to be. and Gandalf later excepts him to help out on the quest , Gandalf later leaves to Saruman to tell him that the ring was found and warn him to prepare for the attack. but Saruman already shows he knows more than ever about what is going on he tells Gandalf how he speaks well knowingly about Sauron and acts like an expert who knows alot about him. he tells more about what Sauron does and says he is using a great army to launch an assault on middle earth. later Saruman shows Gandalf a round glass ball that is being used as a power along with Sauron who he also uses to contact , Gandalf realizes that Saruman has been corrupted already. and Saruman is a wizard also. this explains how Gandalf couldn't carry the ring in order to not risk becoming powerful for the evil. Gandalf and Saruman then engage in a combat but Saruman wins the battle and then imprisons Gandalf at the top of the tower. meanwhile Frodo and sam are later in a garden where they meet merry and pipin , the four hobbits then sense a Nazgul coming their way and they hide from it. later in the night more of them come around and the hobbits then continue to make their way to Bree they are persuaded by the Nazgul. the hobbits then arrive in Bree where Frodo Accidentally puts on the ring, summoning the Nazguls to Bree, they also meet one of the rangers Aragorn (played by viggo mortensen) who is first known as strider which is the name he uses because he doesn't want Sauron to know he is alive tells them to no longer wait and then they hide , the Nazgul attack Bree and then come to wreck the beds , the hobbits then go sleep in another room where Aragorn tells them how they became under the power of the rings, and were said as the nine, they are neither living or dead. Aragorn then leads the hobbits to Rivendell, they then stop at Weathertop where they are again attacked by the Nazgul also known as the black riders, one of them stabs frodo an injuries him , Aragorn then comes and drives the Nazgul away, they then try to find a healing plant called Kingsfoil , they try to use it to heal him until then the female elf Arwen who is the daughter of Elrond arrives and then takes him to her father to heal him later the Nazgul chase her but the uses her powers to wipe out the Nazgul with a wave , she finally arrives at Elrond and Frodo is healed , there he meets Gandalf again who explains to him why he wasn't at Bree, because he was betrayed by Saruman and was trapped on top of his tower in Isengard until he then uses his magical moth to summon the eagles to carry him out. then Frodo also meets the others including sam, marry , and pippin who also arrived at Rivendell along with Aragorn, then the many other dwarves , men , and elves and other members soon to be part of the fellowship arrive many including, Boromir (played by Sean bean) , Legolas ( played by Orlando bloom) and Gimli ( played by john Rhys Davies) they all discuss of how to plan the rings destruction and that how it was formed, this conversation then ends up into an argument, and lasts until Frodo then announces he will cary the ring to Mordor, then he is announced as the ring bearer , the members announced are Aragorn , Boromir , Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and the other hobbits, Frodo also meets bilbo Baggins who gives him stuff he once had including the mithrill armor Wich protects him from being stabbed, and the glowing sword, Frodo and the rest of the fellowship the set off on their quest where they travel through places and then later end up in the mines where Gimli's cousin was buried they later get in a fight with orcs and a troll , they fight them all of until the demon balrog also known as Durans bane comes alive and chases them down. Gandalf then casts it down but then Gandalf falls where he finishes off the demon as it is shown in the next episode of the film which has three parts. the fellowship then continues being led by Aragorn . they then later get encountered by elves and they take them to Lotholrien where they meet Galadriel and Celeborn. Galadirel then tells Frodo that he must destroy the ring once and for all because if he fails all of middle earth will be taken over and it will all be the land of the shadow. Frodo later is confronted by Boromir who tries to take the ring from him and then orcs come and attack , it ends up with Boromir being killed and merry and pippin captured, Frodo then decides to go on the quest alone, but sam asks to go with him and he agrees. the fellowship then separates on their own adventures to continue saving the earth. i loved this movie really much it is Definetly the citizen kane of fantasy films and peter Jackson is one of the worlds best directors to ever use alot of cgi along with Michael bay and James cameron. what this film shows is courage and bravery and how to save the world in a fairy tale. the cinematography was great the soundtrack/musical score was perfect and the acting was good i loved the ensemble between the cast Ian mckellan did a good job portraying the wizard, and viggo mortensen did good at portraying Aragorn as one of the rangers and the rest were also fantastic in their portrayals. the special effects were the best thing about the story as well as the screenplay they were all done well there is no better fantasy film than this. peter Jackson is a genius and knows how to turn the book into a brilliant film. this is one of my favorite films and possibly my most favorite and i watch it almost every year. great job to all the makers of this film, final grade score A+