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Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2004)

I have nothing against this movie, and as a matter of fact like it very much, BUT it is nowhere near the quality of story as The Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather, nor many other movies out there. This movie, while great, does not deserve as high a ranking on the Top 100 list as it has. There are many other movies out there, and while they may not have all the shiny special effects that the producers spent way too much money on, that's not all that you can base a movie on. While a great author, J.R.R. Tolkein's medium was the written word, not the movie. If you want to rate this as a book, it would definitely not appear anywhere near the top 100 or 1000 or perhaps even 10000 of all time, and should therefore not be among the top movies as well.