![]() Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) is a Hobbit, carefree and happy in The Shire. ![]() The Fellowship of the Ring introduces us to the scale and scope of Middle-Earth, its creatures, heroes, and villains. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy begins with its first installment laying the foundation for the giant structure that’s to come. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ![]() In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others. And nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. Three were given to the Elves immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. It all began with the forging of the Great Rings. The discovery of this trilogy was the beginning of an intense and ongoing love affair with the world, its mythology, language and of course, its characters. Blurry eyed and steeped in wonder, I went to watch The Return of the King in the cinema the very next day. I rented The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers and I remember quite vividly how I spent an entire Saturday lost in the world of Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and Men. By that person of course I mean, the only person within my immediate and extended sphere who had not seen the first two films. In 2003 however, with the near-manic frenzy around the release of the final installment in the trilogy, I realized that I couldn’t be that person any longer. By the time the second film, The Two Towers was released a year later, I still hadn’t seen the first and therefore the urgency to catch up was missing. The Lord the Rings was a part of his childhood and when the popular books were adapted for the screen, he told me to, “see it immediately!” However, when the first film debuted in 2001, it was during my first year at University and somehow, while the hype reached me, the urge to actually watch the film passed. ![]() My father was the first person who told me of the genius created by J.R.R Tolkien. ![]()
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