The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring (DVD)

J R R Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings is one of the most famous series of books ever written. In 2001, New Zealand Director Peter Jackson took the helm to direct the film of the first of the triolgy: The Fellowship of the Ring. It was a monumental project, with fantastic results. The Plot There is the One Ring, and the possessor of the Ring has the power to rule everything, destroy everything, and corrupt everything. While it is in existence, ...
...Merry and Pippin, embark on the quest to destroy the Ring, aided by a troop of skilled fighters and adventurers. These are Aragorn the Ranger, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, and Boromir, son of one of the Kings of the land. Their guide for this dangerous quest is Gandalf the Grey Wizard. And dangerous it is, for they must survive the forces of Sauron, evil timeless Dark Lord. The Cast and Performances The cast for the films was very carefully ...

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...Extras> ***I have put the DVD Extras first as many people will already have read much about the actual movie! I have also included an updated and expanded version of my original movie opinion; having watched the movie several times I am able to be a little more indepth!*** -Theatrical (PG-13) version of the film – this is the main reason for buying the movie! I am unsure if it truly merits a PG-13 rating as my 11 year olds found it to be ...
...the movie but generally I believe the movie is suitable for 11+. Parts to watch out for that may cause ‘children’ to have nightmares – one scene where Bilbo’s eyes bulge and his tongue goes purple (this is at Rivendell as he asks to have a look at the ring) – my kids actually laughed at this part but it is a little creepy. Legolas’s accurate arrow that you follow right into the Goblin’s skull – YUK! ...

Simoncook1 09.08.2002 (10.09.2002) · Read full review
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...when it came out onto the cinemas but now that it has been released on DVD with a disk full of extras, I am doing another one to tell you all about them. This opinion is basically an update of my old one but now that it is out on a 2-disk DVD set, Ciao have given it a separate category, so it is legal. Anyway, I have had to correct loads of typo's from my old one and changed a few lines, so the work is there...LOL ~~~~~~MOVIE REVIEW~~~~~~ Lord ...
...3 hours worth. The question being, is it really worth sitting there for nearly 3 whole hours while your backside slowly goes numb to see. The answer: Absolutely This movie is nothing short of fantastic, the wonderful all star cast including Elijah Wood (The Faculty, Forever young), Viggo Mortenson (A Perfect Murder, Daylight), Liv Tyler (Armageddon, One night at McCools), Cate Blanchett (The Gift, Bandits) and Hugo Weaving (the matrix, Pricilla ...

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The haunting voice of Cate Blanchett provided the setting for this film. She presented the story of the creation, disappearance and finally the discovery of that 'evil' ring. Not having read the book, I was not too enthusiastic about watching the film. Nor am I a fan of scifi, fantasy nor the violence I associated with the film. Thus far for the past few years, I had refused to watch this at the cinema. It wasn't until the final installment of the ...
...watching the last part of the trilogy. I was greatly surprised by its effect on me. Synopsis ======== As mentioned before, the haunting voice of Cate set the scene for us, provided us with the history of the all powerful ring, where it is currently held by Bilbo Baggins, a very old but adventurous hobbit. Owning the ring had kept him young looking but felt his age no doubt. He decided to leave his village and left everything to his nephew Frodo ...

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...fortunate to find it on the shelves, expecting to have been sold out almost immediately with retailers using the usual hype trick of under ordering so that they could say it sold out in record time. Instead I found plenty of copies available in my local WHSmith. I picked it up and took it to the counter and got a free poster all for the reasonable price of £18.99. I have spoken to a friend who bought it at HMV Manchester for £19.99 without the free ...
...box. Disc 1 contains the full 171 minute film and disc 2 contains a veritable plethora of special features. The Film ******** The film, is of course based on the trilogy of books by Mr J R Tolkien. Apparently, in 1969 Tolkien got into financial difficulties and sold the rights to any movie for a mere £10, 000. His surviving son an heir Christopher Tolkien might be a little green around the gills these days. Regardless of the lack of input from the ...

Johnny-Phoenix 08.08.2002 · Read full review
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...This is my title for the Lord of the rings trilogy. Named so because of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' connotations portrayed in one of the fairytale masterpieces of the last few years. I say recent but this story is some 80 years old, penned originally by the author J.R.R. Tolkien. It was someone's idea to bring this story to life on the big screen as part of a 3-part story, to be told over the next few years. This is part one of the 3 with part 2 being ...
...to bring this book to the silver screen as it is only now that Hollywood has the technology and sophistication to match Tolkien's imagination. However, this story is only one of the books related to this series. Tolkien has produced more in this collection, which will no doubt be used as 'prequels' to this film. For those that know his work, 'The Hobbit', which was once one of the most popular games on the Sinclair Spectrum, is the prequel to Lord ...

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I'm certainly convinced by the advantages of the DVD over the good old VHS tape as a medium, and never fail to be delighted by the pin-sharp clarity and enormous power of these compact little beauties. However, what I've never really been absolutely turned on by is the need for a multi-disc package, which is what you get pretty much as standard every time you buy a DVD these days. The standard DVD edition of Lord of the Rings comes in at £18.99, ...
...I'm not sure what the difference between these two packages actually is, but let's just concentrate for now on the standard. The second disc is always made up of well hyped "SPECIAL FEATURES" - here this consists of the following - IN-DEPTH PROGRAMMES Revealing the secrets behind the production of the epic adventure - Welcome to Middle Earth - Quest for the Ring - A Passage to Middle Earth FEATURETTES Created for lordoftherings.net, exploring ...

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...of all time is and the odds are very much stacked in favour of one title storming to the fore. I don't really need to spell it out that blatantly, now do I? Well, just in case I do, and any of you have spent the last sixty years or so burrowed away from the rest of the world, insulated from the rigours of reality, the work in question is JRR Tolkien's unbelievably immense and enjoyable sword and sorcery epic, The Lord of the Rings. My own particular ...
...(silently, of course) whiling away the hours before a games lesson, but on one particular occasion I happened across something which captivated my attention so completely and utterly that for several weeks I was thoroughly obsessed with the hard back second episode of the trilogy, The Two Towers. I'm not sure exactly why it was so captivating, I just remember I literally couldn't put the thing down for weeks on end, and revelled in a rich and intoxicating ...

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...and one other things on the go, life has been a little bit hectic to say the least! Hope that I find you all well and fully recovered from the dreaded hangovers LOL! So what have I been up to you may ask??????????? Well, nothing much changes. However, one thing did change – I finally got around to buying a DVD player (possible opinion to follow on that one methinks!). So now yours truly has come out of the dark ages and up to date with modern technology. ...
...something which will fully show the glory and wonder that is a DVD player – “Lord of The Rings”. CAST Ian McKellen Gandalf Elijah Wood Frodo Ian Holm Bilbo Baggins Liv Tyler Arwen Viggo Mortensen Aragorn Cate Blanchett Galadriel Sean Bean Boromir Sean Astin Sam Jonathan Rhys-Davies Gimli Christopher Lee Sauroman Director Peter Jackson Running time 2 hrs 51 mins Rating PG Ooh, that’s a nice bit ...

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...Special Edition) When the One Ring of power comes to light after years in the shadows, it is entrusted to the unlikeliest of heroes - Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit. Accompanied by a fellowship of men, dwarves, elves and hobbits, Frodo and the wizard Gandalf are charged with destroying the ring before the dark lord Sauron can regain possession of it and use it to conquer Middle Earth. Almost every literature to film adaptation has been slapped with the ...
...and days sometimes weeks of the readers attention to lay out it's story, films are granted 2-3 hours at best after which the audience will share their judgments. Fans of Tolkiens work can be especially protective. With this in mind, various studios deliberated for years over what kind of film Rings should be, and who they would get to helm it. When Peter Jackson pitched his vision of Middle Earth to New Line Studios, they wisely recognized the combination ...

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...opinion reveals minor details about the movie's plot. When I first saw the movie poster I thought the movie would be stupid. Then I heard everyone talking about it and rating it 4 of 5 stars, so I went to see it. Unfortunately, I was proven right. Maybe if I had read the book the movie would make more sense. However, I believe a film should stand on its own. In my opinion, this one did not. Let's start with the title - "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship ...
...they just call it "LOFR: The Fellowship" or something less redundant? But that's being picky if the movie itself is good. Now we get to the film. For starters I quickly became confused with the ring math: 3 rings, plus 7 rings, plus 9 rings, plus 1 ring... carry the two, multiply by seven... and you have a bunch of rings going wholesale. Perhaps this is the beginning of a twenty-ology and all will be revealed in time, but right now I needed an insert ...

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When Lord of the Rings was being released on DVD I couldn’t wait to buy it. (So I went out yesterday and bought the 2 DVD set). On the 1st disc there is the film Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the ring c/w your options, Select a Scene, Play Movie etc. The movie itself I loved (as you can see from my opinion from 3rd February). This is the Widescreen version (although with DVD you can adjust the picture size from Widescreen to Pan & Scan to suit ...
...disc you have all the special features listed below: The making of the Lord of the Rings (Welcome to Middle Earth) (Quest for the Ring) (A Passage to Middle Earth) You also have the various Featurettes which feature the making of the sets (from Hobbiton to Rivendell) and information of the actors from Sir Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood and Cate Blanchett to name a few. Exclusive 10 minute behind the scenes preview of ‘The Two Towers’. The film just ...

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...it came out on to the big screen yet i could never find the time, So when it came out on DVD i was the first to go out and buy it. That very night i had set up a very lovely feast just ready to sit and relax and watch it and that is what i done, i did not move through out the flim i was glue to every mintue of it. I throughly enjoyed it maybe because i like that sort of thing or maybe cos i had read all the books and i wanted to put a picture to ...
...a whole disc full to the brim with special features. The flim does last for about 171 mintues which is rather long, but i can say that it just does'nt seem to be that long when watching it as it is action packed with excitment. Well the story, it is a fanstansy flim, so that says a lot just right there as it has creatures, and good and evil battling against each other as all fanastasy flims do. It begins when a Dark Evil Lord Sauron creates a evil ...

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...he did he'd know that the original cut of Dune lasted 4 hours for just 1 book. The Fellowship Of The Rings is over 5000 pages long (I should know, I've read all 3 books). The story itself is a continuation of what happens to the ring discovered by Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" once the ring passes into the possession of his nephew Frodo and I wondered why they chose to make this trilogy and then make The Hobbit afterwards. As part 1 of a 3 book trilogy ...
...this is just about introducing the various characters of Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin & Gandalf and getting them out of The Shire and onto the 1st stage of their extremely long journey. The bad guys are established through the Black Riders and helpful friends are established through people like Strider. The film is far too long by half, I woud have used a narrator to improve pacing across the whole film. The film generally looks very good apart from ...

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