Highlight: The Fellowship of the Ring

After much thought, I still could not choose whether to review Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers or The Return of the King from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had to make up my mind and chose The Fellowship of the Ring at last. The beginning of every story is rather important as without a beginning there is no end.

Before the Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (FOTR) came out, I myself had never heard of this popular classic or even the much acclaimed director, Peter Jackson. There was so much hype about this movie adaption, I figured I should watch it and experience it myself. I was treated to a three hour plus long magical adventure that reminds me a bit of the Harry Potter series after a couple of times or vice versa.

The cast consist of Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom, who were relatively unknown. They became stars almost overnight with one movie. Some important characters that should be noted are hobbits Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee (Elijah Wood and Sean Astin), the wizard Gandalf, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn.

In my opinion, what made this movie such a huge success was that it was almost flawless. Time flies when you are with the fellowship in Mines of Moria, gasping at the goblins sudden attacks and the realization that they were hugely overpowered. After that, you feel your eyes get wet and you start sniffling when the Fellowship start off with nine and come out of the mines with only eight. The young hobbits, Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin), Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd,) who start out the journey carefree and innocent now harden up with shock and realization that the quest is extremely dangerous. With a swarm of goblins hot on their heels, it leaves them no time to grieve for their fallen member but to travel on as fast as possible to evade them. All these exciting adventures, as you might call it, happen near the end of the movie of course.

At the beginning, FOTR starts of with a much more pleasant introduction but hints at the dark paths that lay ahead. A few minutes of prologue about the legend of the ring (the most important item) for those who did not know the story beforehand like me. After that, a cheerful Bilbo Baggins celebrates his one hundred and eleventh birthday in the Shire. The plot takes a darker twist from there when he mysteriously disappeared and gave Frodo Baggins (the hero!) the ring to keep. I shall not reveal anymore of this exciting plot as you should watch it yourself and do not be surprised if you will rush to get your hands on The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

My ratings you ask? Ten thumbs up! Well if I had ten of course.

What I know at the end of the day is that FOTR became a big hit while staying true to the book. It leaves fans like me wanting more.

If you would like to know the whole story of FOTR this is a rather informative review.