Magnificent

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2019)

Magnificent achievement it is; an epic tale of friendship, love and heroism, a film that set the benchmark for all fantasy films to come. Tolkien's descriptive narrative beautifully depicts Middle-earth and the journey that the Fellowship undertakes will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
It is hard to put into words the happiness that can be felt when watching a fantasy film as good as this and anybody who has never watched it should set aside some time to do so. Is it the best fantasy film of all time? In my opinion, yes.
There's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't watched the gospel of the genre. The influence of The Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another. Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, The Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in The Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic.