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This movie is the centerpiece to anyone's fantasy collection
Growing up reading The Lord of the Rings a dozen times over, I never would have thought someone would finally release a movie that would do it justice (I had settled for watching Ralph Bakshi's version thinking that's all there would ever be). Then this gem comes along, and it is exactly the way I always pictured it in my mind. I see now why it took so long--because the film-making technology to perfectly capture what all of us loyal readers kept in our hearts couldn't be displayed on the big screen until now. God bless you Peter Jackson!

"One Ring to rule them all . . ." Yeah!!
I can't describe its how amazing this film is, but this is one of the world's, or history's greatest films! Based on *J.R.R. Tolkien's* trilogy, *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* is a masterpiece, filled with a types of entertainment, and what's best, is that it's got all of 'em. It's got fantasy, action, drama, romance, and sweet humor, as it tells the tale of an evil Ring, the Fellowship which risked their lives trying to destory it, and the problems it causes over its bearer, Frodo.
Yup, you can RARELY find a movies, like this, and rarely you can find a story like this. Peter Jackson has made a wonderful movie without making it boring, and you can enjoy this long movie, unless you're an impatient person, whom I won't recommend this film to. This movie is even better than Titanic, and it beats ... movies like A Beautiful (ugly) Mind. It's filled with a wonderful cast: cool Elijah Wood, Sean Austin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, and talented British actors like Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee.
The story is one you all know, if you've read the book. Dark Lord Sauron is plotting to rule Middle Earth using one, powerful Ring, the Ring of Power. But he was defeated, and Prince Islidur, who killed him, decided to keep the Ring, after his heart got filled with the desire to use the Ring. But alas, the guy got killed and the Ring was lost for thousands of years, until Smeagol found the it, and he got corrupted by the "Precious" Ring. He became the hideous creature, Gollum.
But the Ring abandond Gollum, and something happened that the Ring didn't expect. It was found by the most unlikely creature imaginable, a Hobbit (halfling): Bilbo Baggins of the Shire, and for years, the Ring was in his houses . . . until now.
Now, his hier, Frodo, must destroy the Ring by casting it back into Mount Doom, the very place it was made, and there, it could be unmade. Together with the Fellowhsip of the Ring, Frodo must journey to Mordor, to the site of Mount Doom, or else Sauron, whose spirit is bound to the Ring, will return. But the journey won't be that easy.
Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, and out of those Oscars, it won four, the Fellowship of the Ring is one you won't miss to watch! Though it should've won Best Picture, it's still a great movie, and here at Amazon.com, the film has 2778 reveiwers (the number might change). Out of the reviews, there are 130 1-star reviews! This is quiet a FEW number of negative reviews, mostly done by Tolkien "Experts" and easily bored people who probably never read the books. But it's pleasing to know that there are many 5-star reviews, and that'll probably make you want to watch it, again and again, 'till you're tired of it.

Sincerely,
A ...reviewer/student/fan

Forget the original theatrical version. This one is amazing!
Forget everything you saw in the theater. The extended version DVD features 30 minutes of additional footage that truly enhances Peter Jackson's vision for the trilogy.

Some additional footage is only seconds long, while other parts include full scenes.

Among them you'll find an introduction and additional footage of the Shire, Merry and Pip singing in a bar, a longer Fellowship council scene with further insights into Boromir's attraction to the ring, some additional footage that helps to explain Aragorn and Arwen's relationship, Samwise reciting some poetry after Gandalf's death, and some wonderful footage with Galadriel at Lothlorien as she gives each member of the fellowship a gift to take with them.

The only drawback, and it is a minor one, is that this version also includes additional scenes of violence. In particular, one scene where the Uruk-Hai attacking Boromir pulls a knife from his leg and licks it, was inappropriate.

The extended version is far truer to the original story in that it adds additional moments of levity and grace that seemed missing from the original theatrical version. The stories are filled with examples of the hobbits singing and reciting poems as they journey, and the extended version attempts to put some of that back into the film. This helps to make the film not quite so dark.

Fans of the film will not be disappointed with this DVD set.

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