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Best of the trilogy
Although "The Return of the King" won the most awards, I prefered this one. You get introduced to all the characters and the story. The second two films merely continue the story and rely more on special effects and fight sequences for excitment. Hobbits are quiet gentle people and this movie shows that.

Leaves you wanting more
I saw this movie in the movie theater and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! This movie was intriguing and excellently acted. You see some veteran actors like Ian McKellan, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving and some new faces like gorgeous Orlando Bloom as Legolas! Huge props go out to Viggo Mortenson as Aragorn, Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, Sean Astin as Sam, Elijah Wood as Frodo, Liv Tyler as Arwen and Dominic Monaghan as Merry and whoever else I forgot to mention.
The graphics and costumes used for this movie were nothing less than amazing. I don't even want to imagine how long it took to do all the orcs, uruk-hai, goblins and hobbits, as well as the others. Probably half a day! Well, it was worth it for all the awards it raked in and all the glowing reviews it was given. The battle scenes are breathtaking and necessary to show how easy it is to be corrupted by great power. If Frodo could just waltz into Mount Doom and destroy the ring, there would be no story and there is no easy way out like that! Some people say this movie is an escape from real life. No, a lot of your characters represent the modern world: Sauron represents Satan and how he so easily corrupts people. The Nazgul and Orcs show what happens to you when you allow yourself to be really corrupted by evil. The Fellowship represnts the small but faithful followers that eventually triumph in the end. Men represent the weak minded people in our society and the elves represent the cynics and pessimists that have to learn to pull their heads out of their butts and trust people. The dwarves are power hungry bullies, all bark but no bite like 3/4 of our world. Sam is the best friend everybody wishes they had and Arwen is the loving future wife every man wishes they could find. If I had to find somebody who was the most like God, it would be a toss up between Aragorn and Gandalf. Aragorn represents the powerful leader that rises up once more to triumph over darkness and Gandalf symbolizes reincarnation and the strong willed followers that would be willing to even die for the cause of good. This is probably why I like this trilogy so much, because you have characters you can relate to
Now let me take a moment to bash this one idiot reviewer named Mike Young who had the balls to compare this great flick to Dungeons and Dragons: Hey Mike, Dungeons and Dragons is a flagrant cheap rip off of Lord of the Rings! There isn't even a basis for comparison! D&D was created by some high school nerd in the 80's and doesn't deserve to be in the same league as LOTR! If you're so hell bent on Dungeons and Dragons, fine but don't go bashing this movie just to shoot your mouth off about a stupid game and movie that haven't even won any decent rewards, much less grossed the sales Lord of the Rings has! Think about that!
To summarize this movie: Not as thrilling as Return of the King but better than The Two Towers! I have no regrets about buying this DVD or the others and I believe this will still be a great movie for years to come!

The perfect fantasy-adventure-drama movie
Judged as a craft in its own right, and not necessarily wanting to judge it alongside 'true' art, this motion picture must surely be judged seriously as a first class achievement. I think it would be wrong to condescendingly judge it as just some other fantasy-adventure or even children's movie.
I have never even read the book 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien for fear of being bored, but now I will probably never read it, because of the vision of Peter Jackson et al. For as far as I can judge it, Peter Jackson has in a masterly way condensed the (somewhat plodding?) book by Tolkien into an awesome, warmly affecting visual and emotional tale of first class drama and spectacle. How could my (very limited) fantasy ever approach those many marvellous acting achievements combined with sumptuously filmed sets and landscapes in this film (and its two sequels)? This film must first and foremost be seen as the result of truly great craftmanship on the part of all involved.
From the incredibly extensive appendices we learn how flabbergastingly enormous amounts of work, scattered over many years and over many places, causing for the outsider a feeling of 'how on earth could it all have come together as neatly as it has', have indeed come together in a cohesive and very convincing dramatic tale. This is a gigantic feat which can only make one's the admiration for this filmmaking-endeavor greater.
In its sort, this movie must be the best up to now, and I consider 'The Fellowship of the Ring' the most pleasing film of the three.

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