Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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Your thoughts on this movie....

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.






On to the next movie.....

THE TWO TOWERS....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002-thread.953/


Back to the previous movie.....

THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES.......

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-2014.951/



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Earlier version of this tale.....

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1977).......

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-hobbit-1977.5137/


THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-lord-of-the-rings-1978.955/



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Or check out the new tv show......

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TV SHOW........

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/lord-of-the-rings-the-tv-show.3631/
 
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Elessar

Elessar

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The Fellowship of the Ring is the best of the trilogy, hence the best among all Middle-earth movies and animations and games ever existing :emoji_bow_and_arrow:

Especially with traveling-lover like me (and many ones of you), it's like an epic eye-opener voyage into a realm of your dream. The Shire, then Rivendell, then Lothlorien. Has there ever been a realm more beautiful than that?
 
Carol

Carol

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Knocks Narnia into a cocked hat!

I'd never read a word of Tolkein (except our Middle English set texts) till I saw the Bakshi cartoon - the friend I went with were horrified and bought me the giant paperback-of-the-film for Christmas. Still got it - ragged, dogged and spine cracked to pieces (and so is the book) ... but still readable, dammit!

It's amazing how actual medieval faerie,Tolkein's elves and Sir Pterry's can all take their turn delighting one human brain, at different times. SO for me one of the most ingenious contributions in The Hobbit films was the clear depiction of boozed up scumbag elves to go along the (slightly pretentious) High Elves. I'm sure Tolkein would have been chuffed to see a she-elf taking centre stage for a time - he couldn't be expected to do everything single-handed after all.
 
Carol

Carol

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Have I accidentally bamboozled you my friend? Sorry! I mean Sir Terry Pratchett (the "P" is silent as it is in the name of the Ptraci, heroine of his Pyramids.

If it's his elves you are after - you need specifically to read Lords and Ladies, but if you want to know just how much he loves Tolkein (while having a more robust sense of irony, and a more contemporary set of real-world values) you could start with - well, everything Discworld. He never knowingly wrote anything less than wonderful, and had no mercy for second rate Tolkein imitators...

PS Why the emoticon of my old nanna? And how did you know it was her?

 
Carol

Carol

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Ah now my nanna came round to watch (the old) Poldark, loved the wrestling on Saturdays, taught me to knit, failed to teach me to crochet and never made biscuits at all.
Now I have been fed "biscuits" in Arizona (they were scones); they were covered in "gravy" (it was white sauce with sausage chunks in). Also, this was breakfast, in August in the desert outside Phoenix ... RESPECT to the staying power of the Old West and all - but good grief!
 
Carol

Carol

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As if I would? Respect for the hearty foodstuff indeed - I ate it up like a good'un - but the confusing terminology threw me in the first place, then the fact of it being breakfast time and lastly the Very Big Hot Yellow Thing in the sky was indicating perhaps a cereal and fruit combo, or at the most a proper bacon buttie.
As a teatime ethnic delicacy on a damp Autumn afternoon, or even a hangover dinner, it would have my vote entirely.
My kindly hosts debated between themselves and all agreed not to order me the grits as well - I didn't ask. Maybe next time?
 
chainsaw_metal1

chainsaw_metal1

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Yeeeeaaahhh...we Yanks have a propensity for huge breakfasts. Large stacks of pancakes or waffles, fried eggs, fried potatoes and some kind of pork, that sort of thing. I tend to go with the cereal, or toasted bagel and cream cheese, or skip breakfast all together, only because I wake up too late on most mornings to get a proper breakfast. Also, I tend to prefer those big breakfast meals for supper, or even better, at a truck stop or diner about 2 in the morning when I've had a snoot full of fire water. Drunk food, if you ask me.

Allegedly there's a place close to my location where one can get a proper English fry-up. An ex-pat friend of mine and I are thinking of a road trip at some point, because he raves about them.

and stay away from grits. You'll thank me.
 
Carol

Carol

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Here you are, just after I've attempted to start a conversation with you, wherever they turn up - please let me know if anything tips you off - I might have misfired with the new party trick.
Well done your friend!! Hope you take that road trip soon.
 
Carol

Carol

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Sorry everyone else for seeming to go so far off topic just lately - although in my/our defence, there's something very Hobbity about a digression on the subject of large breakfasts that we really were actually on-topic all along (might be one for the Mods to arbitrate though)

This thread, plus the likelihood of a hell-week at work have combined to compel me to dust of my DVD and start out afresh- and suddenly, in the Prologue, I spotted something I never pondered before in many viewings.
In the battle where Sauron looses both hand and Ring: how come we can SEE him? Obviously easier to amputate your enemy's bits and attendant jewellery that way...but, help me out folks - WHY IS HE VISIBLE?
 
chainsaw_metal1

chainsaw_metal1

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I believe he's to busy working on scripts for THE SILMARILION, BEREN AND LUTHIEN, and a mini-series based upon everything in The Appendices, whereupon he devotes three episodes simply for Appendix D: Calendars.
 
Carol

Carol

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OK - The Silmarilion: I fell asleep at a very early stage of that, on Brighton beach on a very hot day... given that Brighton beach is made entirely of chunky pebbles this was not my best idea ever, and probably unfairly biased my opinion of the book. Must try again, I suppose.
Beren and Luthien could work a treat - not exactly rom-com but - given how autobiographical it is, would he have a South African and she a Brummie accent? (which I believe is true of them in their earliest days...)

Appendix D : oh it could be so very Dogme, so post-modern, so alt-noir... see you in Cannes for the after-party?
 
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