return of the fellowship of the ring to the two towers

The dark lord Sauron himself made the One Ring, the ring that would complete and intensify the power of all the others. He explains the essential back story in a fleet, graceful expository passage at the beginning: In ancient times, in an undefined place, a set of powerful golden rings were forged and dispersed to various kingdoms across the land. And as for everyone else, Jackson makes all the right moves in reaching out to them. My guess, though, is that most fans of the books will warm to Jackson's version (even if the story has been streamlined a bit, with some characters' roles enhanced and other figures sliced out altogether). Jackson's approach is refreshingly egalitarian: I had feared that 'The Fellowship of the Rings' would be a ferociously clubby movie, one that would, with a snobbish sniff, shut out people unfamiliar with Tolkien's books. In adapting the story of hobbit Frodo Baggins and his mission to guard and ultimately destroy a ring that has the power to bring cursed evil upon the world, director Peter Jackson has given us an epic in the true sense, with none of the pretentious fakery that the word 'epic' has come to imply. The first 10 minutes of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' renders all hype - whether it's the kind that's bought and paid for or the kind generated by eager fans - inconsequential.

Advertising is dead: Long live moviemaking. It would be an insult to say the picture merely lives up to its hype it crashes the meaning of hype, exposing it as the graven image it is. The great wonder of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' is that it bathes us in all three, to the point where we remember - in a vague, pleasurably hallucinatory sensation from another lifetime - why we go to the movies in the first place. The most heartbreaking thing about faithful moviegoing is that awe, beauty and excitement, three of the things we go to the movies for, are the very things we're cheated of the most.

Return of the fellowship of the ring to the two towers