![]() Narratively faithful to Tolkien's story, but emotionally affecting enough to make longtime readers feel like they are entering Frodo's world for the first time, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King is one of the best cinematic literary adaptations of all time. The New Zealand backdrops Jackson chose to help convey his vision of Middle Earth seem ripped from Tolkien's original pages, and the nine actors selected to make up the Fellowship of the Ring, and accompany the cherubic-faced hobbit Frodo Baggins ( Elijah Wood) on his action-packed journey into Mordor to destroy Sauron's ring - and subsequently, Sauron himself - could not have been more aptly cast. ![]() Fantasy fandoms are rarely happy with the filmic adaptations of their beloved books, but lovers of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series had little to complain about when they saw the results of Peter Jackson's work on the first movie in the long-awaited trilogy. ![]()
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