LOTR: The world's greatest literary achievement becomes the world's greatest cinematic achievement.

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2003)

Since my first reading of "The Hobbit," and the LOTR Trilogy, it's been my continuing belief that Tolkien's story of Middle Earth and its inhabitants is the greatest accomplishment in the history of English literature. Now, after seeing Peter Jackson's cinematic rendering of Tolkien's literary genius, I've decided that the three LOTR flicks, taken as a whole, is the greatest accomplishment in the history of world cinema.