THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

The settings, costumes and props were, as promised, beautifully done. My companion commented as we left the theater that he'd had chills several times because a scene was rendered exactly as he'd envisioned it when he read the book -- 20 years ago. I suspect anyone who has read the book is going to have the same experience.

As for those necessary adaptations to the conventions and limitations of film, I noticed them but I didn't mind them, except in one instance. The meeting between Frodo and Galadriel in the garden at Lothlorien, when he offers to give her the One Ring, seems to be clumsily edited. Although Galadriel is shown receiving her Ring of Power in the prologue, the moment when she reveals it to Frodo isn't there, so the knowledge that she has the power to resist its lure isn't revealed. Nor is it explained that Frodo is observing "an Elf Queen in all her power." Without that information, her response to the offer -- and the test it implies -- seems overdone.

That, however is a hiccup. The Fellowship of the Ring is everything Peter Jackson promised it would be, and the only real drawback is that we must now wait another year for the next installment.

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