The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

One of my favourite movies of all time and one that I watched recently is The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I watched the trilogy last week and I had forgotten how good all the movies were.
The movies are based on the books of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkein.
It is set in Middle Earth, a land inhabited by Men, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and many other species including Hobbits.
The film starts off by showing showing the forging or the rings that were given to each race: 3 to the Elves; 7 to the Dwarves and 9 to the race of Men. But the Dark Lord Sauron also forged anothe ring in secret. A ring of power, intended gave him control of the other rings. The scene skips to a view of an army of Men and Elves, the last free people of Middle Earth, as they march towards Mordor to fight a last stand against Sauron and his army or orcs. During the battle Isildur picks up the sword of his dead father, King Elendil, and uses it to cut the Ring of Power off Sauron's hand, removing his power and destroying his body.
Isildur, overcome with lust, keeps the ring instead of destroying it thus preserving Saurons life force which was bound to the ring. After Isildur is murdered by Orcs the ring disappears from all knowledge for over 2,500 years. The ring is then found by Gollem, once a creature similar to a Hobbit, he keeps the ring to himself in the Misty Mountains for 500 years until Bilbo Baggins stumbles across him and takes the Ring from him.
The prologue ends and the film starts properly in the shire, home to many Hobbits and the protagonist of the three films, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). There is a party being hosted for Frodo's uncle Bilbo for his 111th birthday and preparations are in full swing when the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) arrives. He is old friends with Bilbo after sending him on an adventure to rescue treasure and battle a dragon ( in 'The Hobbit' also by J. R. R. Tolkein ) and as such is invited to his birthday party. While talking to Bilbo, Gandalf realises that he intends to leave the shire and go on another adventure or go somewhere quiet to finish writing his book. Gandalf convinces him to leave his 'magic ring' behind in Frodos care.
After Bilbo leaves Gandalf decides to do a bit more research into the ring that Bilbo had and discovers that it is the original Ring of Power created by Sauron. At a similar time to this, Saurons followers captured Gollem and tortured him into telling them where Bilbo lived so they could get the ring back.
Gandalf then gets Frodo to agree to take the ring to Rivendell, the home of the Elves but Frodo decides to take the ring the whole way to Mt. Doom in Mordor to destroy the ring once and for all. Frodo was accompanied by his best friend Samwise Gamgee and two other of their friends Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took ( Merry and Pippin ) from the shire and once they left Rivnedell they also travelled with an Elf Legolas, a dwarf Gimli and two men Aragorn and Boromir, along with the Wizard Gandalf.
They encounter many difficulties and dangers on their journey and the audience is left wanting more at the end of the film.
The Fellowship of the Rings has been critisized as being the most boring of the three movies and the one that deviates the furthest from the novels but I still think that it is the best of the three movies as it gives a great introduction to each character and sets the basis of the other two to follow on from.
I doubt that there are very many people out there who have never seen a Lord of the Rings movie but if so I encourage everyone to go and watch one, or if you have seen it, watch it again! I would give this movie 9 out of 10

Here is the Official Trailer for the movie: