The first film out of three about J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world. 2001. Director: Peter Jackson.
A long, long time ago, the Dark Lord Sauron made some very powerful ring in the fire of Mount Doom in the dark land of Mordor. He gave three rings to the elvs, seven to the dwarfs, nine to the mortal men, but made The One ring for himself.
That one ring was the most powerful ring of them all. It controlled the other rings and one by one, Sauron took control of the lands of Middle Earth with the help of The ring. Then, the remaining free people left fought Sauron and his orcs to free their homes.
But when it all seemed to be for nothing, Prince Isildur (Harry Sinclair) cuts of Sauron's hand, and the ring on the Dark Lord's hand fell to the ground. The leader of the elvs, Elrond (Hugo Weaving), persuaded Isildur to throw the ring into the fire of Mount Doom. But Isildur doesn't, and leaves with it. And as long as the ring isn't destroyed, Sauron is alive.
But the ring isn't to be trusted. It has it's own life. It wants to get back to its master, Sauron. One day, Isildur is killed and the ring seemed to be lost forever. But then, many, many years later, it was found. Then it was brought to the Misty Mountains by the creature Gollum (Andy Serkis) who became sick of the love to the ring.
Then, many years later, it had given Gollum unnaturally long life. But it felt that the time had come. It left Gollum, but was found by the must unlikely creature, a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm). Bilbo treasured the ring for a long time, but nothing last forever.
When he celebrates his 111th birthday in the land of hobbits, The Shire, the vise wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) persuades Bilbo to leave the ring to Frodo (Elijah Wood). Bilbo does as Gandalf tells him and leaves for a long journey. Gandalf then tell Frodo that he must bring the ring to Mordor and destroy it.
Frodo could never in his life imagine what the journey to Mordor would turn into. It would become the most dangerous and frightening journey ever made!
This movie is just so wonderful that you can't imagine if you haven't seen it! It's very long, but you don't notice that when you're enchanted of the magic of the film. Peter Jackson has done a great job, and all others working with this film.
Viggo Mortensen, who play the Dunedai man Aragorn is really good and so are also Sean Astin as Sam Gamgi, Frodo's friend and journey mate. Billy Boyd as Pippin Took is very sweet but Dominic Monaghan as his friend Merry isn't that good.
Other actors and actresses are Liv Tyler as the beautiful Arwen, princess of the elvs, Orlando Bloom as the arrow shooting Legolas, John Rhys-Davies as the dwarf Gimli and Christopher Lee as the white wizard Saruman. If you like the books, then you'll love the films even more. The books are pretty boring sometimes, but the films aren't.
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