"The Fellowship of the Ring" - a review -- Adilbrand Noblesword's Hall of Warriors

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Date Posted: 14:57:15 12/20/01 Thu
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: "The Fellowship of the Ring" - a review
In reply to: Adilbrand 's message, "I saw "The Fellowship of the Ring"!" on 00:10:07 12/20/01 Thu

The movie far exceeds my expectations, meets my hopes at almost all levels, and -- of course -- falls short of my reading experiences, altering as all film does the drama seen with "the mind's eye" and that which is spoon-fed to us on a screen or stage (of course that life-seemingness and action offers a different plus of sorts and a seeming reality that is at least different from the reading experience).

What stands out for me about the film is the reinforcement of the chosen scenes (relatively few added [Arwen up-played and the Arwen-Aragorn love touched upon early, as opposed to later or in the appendix], and -- for box office -- the right few left out). Many of the lines of dialog chosen for emphasis are exactly ones I would have emphasized. I say this because it helps to prove to me (I was already convinced) that the story touches some things essentially human and archetypal within us. It has the power of myth. That others find the same or similar things in it as important helps to bear this out -- at least for me.

Also used in the movie, out of place (I forgive them for that) but as a refrain, is one of the great exchanges of dialog in the book:

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given, us."

It is so far beyond Bakshi's [half] LotR that words cannot express the difference.

As C. S. Lewis said of his friend's book, the film is "good beyond hope."

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Twice opening day! -- Telemachus, 05:58:19 12/21/01 Fri

Re: Twice opening day! -- Adilbrand, 09:34:09 12/21/01 Fri