“One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
For decades, the words above have ignited the imaginations of more than one hundred million readers around the globe. They were first read in 1954, when J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first volume in his towering three-part epic, The Lord Of The Rings, was published.
The Fellowship Of The Ring introduces an unforgettable hero – the Hobbit Frodo Baggins (played marvelously by Elijah Wood), who is caught up in a war of mythic proportions in Middle-earth, a world full of magic and lore. Most of all, it celebrated the power of loyal friendship and individual courage, a power that may hold at bay even the most devastating forces of darkness.
In this part of the trilogy, the young Hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a ring, but this ring is no mere trinket. It is the One Ring, an instrument of absolute power that could allow Sauron, the dark Lord of Mordor, to rule Middle-earth and enslave its peoples. Frodo, together with a Fellowship that includes his loyal Hobbit friends, Humans, a Wizard, a Dwarf and an Elf, must take the One Ring across Middle-earth to Mount Doom, where it first was forged, and destroy it forever. Such a journey means venturing deep into territory manned by Sauron, where he is amassing his army of Orcs. And it is not only external evils that the Fellowship must combat, but also internal dissension and the corrupting influence of the One Ring itself. The course of future history is entwined with the fate of the Fellowship.
Director/writer/producer Peter Jackson does one magnificent job. Everything about this film screams greatness. The details, the soul, the emotions, all are the roller coaster ride that you’d expect. Those how have read the trilogy will not be let down. Jackson seems to have embraced Tolkien’s words with his soul and entrapped them in his film.
From open to close, this film is grand entertainment. The Fellowship Of The Ring is just one taste of two more films left to come, and I say please hurry and bring these other films to the public. The moment the credits rolled all I could do is beg for more. The Fellowship Of The Ring is the rare movie that you never want to end.
+ charlie craine
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