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With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting Frodo are servants of the Dark Lord, Sauron, the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, Middle-earth is doomed. Winner of four Academy Awards, this epic tale of good versus evil, friendship and sacrifice will transport you to a world beyond imagination.Includes the theatrical and special extended edition of the film.
"...the most rousing and ambitious adventure film of many years and bodes well for the future of the Tolkien fan." John Anderson, NewsDay
"An extraordinary work, grandly conceived, brilliantly executed and wildly entertaining." Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"Not since Gone With The Wind more than 60 years ago has a movie held up as well to the original book." Paul Clinton, CNN
"...the real deal, a movie epic that pops your eyes out, piles on thrills and fun, and yet stays intimately attuned to character..." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Spectacular scenery, stupefying effects and epic scope...a dream come true." Rita Kempley, The Washington Post
"An excellent film and a ripping yarn of a movie." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"I see it as nearly perfect: It's one of the best fantasy pictures ever made." Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Editor's Note
With THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, director Peter Jackson has achieved a meticulous and captivating adaptation of the first book of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy. The setting is Middle-earth, a mythological land populated by elves, dwarves, humans, and the gentle, diminutive hobbits upon whom the story centers. One hobbit, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), unexpectedly comes into possession of an ancient magical ring so powerful it invariably corrupts anyone who wears it. In order to prevent the ring's erstwhile owner, the dark lord Sauron, from reclaiming the ring and taking over Middle-earth, a motley band of comrades set out to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom, where it was forged. Included in the group are Frodo and hobbits Sam (Sean Astin), Merry (Dominic Monoghan), and Pippin (Billy Boyd); the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen); human warriors Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and Boromir (Sean Bean); the dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies); the elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom). Along the way, they wage battle with monsters, demons, and Sauron's evil minions, all brought to life by spectacular digital technology. Jackson's grandiose production represents the first of three films that he wrote and directed, derived from Tolkien's beloved novels. Fourteen months in the making, at a cost of $270 million, all three installments were filmed at once in New Zealand where diverse landscapes lend themselves particularly well to the mystical realm of Middle-earth. The trilogy also includes THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING.
| Features | Audio: English DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | New Behind-The-Scenes Documentary Featuring Never-Before-Seen Footage - Created By Filmmaker Costa Botes (Personally Selected By Peter Jackson), These Unique Films Use Raw Footage To Reveal The Inside Story On How The Greatest Adventure Film Franchise Was Born | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 11/13/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 11121 | | UPC: 00794043111211 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (2003) | | | People's Choice, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Favorite Motion Picture | |
Winner (2002) | | | British Academy Awards, Peter Jackson, et. al., Best Film | | | British Academy Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Audience Award | | | British Academy Awards, Jim Rygiel, et. al., Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects | | | British Academy Awards, Peter Owen, et. al., Best Make Up/Hair | | | British Academy Awards, Peter Jackson, David Lean Award for Direction | | | MTV Award, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Best Movie | | | MTV Award, Orlando Bloom, Breakthrough Male Performance | | | Oscar, Andrew Lesnie, Best Cinematography | | | Oscar, Jim Rygiel, et. al., Best Effects, Visual Effects | | | Oscar, Peter Owen, Richard Taylor, Best Makeup | | | Oscar, Howard Shore, Best Music, Original Score | | | Screen Actors Guild, Ian McKellen, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...The playful spookiness of Mr. Jackson's direction provides a lively, light touch..." 12/19/2001 p.E1USA Today
"...A faithful and visually spectacular adaptation of the first volume in Tolkien's trilogy....RINGS has moment of edge-of-the-seat excitement..." 12/21/2001 p.8E Rolling Stone
"...FELLOWSHIP is the real deal, a movie epic that pops your eyes out, piles on thrills and fun, and yet stays intimately attuned to character..." 01/17/2002 p.55-6 Variety
"...[The film] looks to please the book's legions of fans with its imaginatively scrupulous rendering of the tome's characters and worlds on the screen....McKellen delivers Gandalf with great relish and gusto..." 12/10/2001 p.31-6 Box Office
"...Jackson has captured something of the depth, breadth, and melancholy grandeur of Tolkien's vision. And that is magic, indeed..." 02/01/2002 p.59 Sight and Sound
"...Jackson has translated the best-loved fantasy novel of our age into a commanding screen adventure, one with a sense of human terror and danger and grit under its nails..." 02/01/2002 p.49-52 Hollywood Reporter
"...Well-made and well-cast....Masterfully paced and one of those rewarding movies that seems to get better as it progresses..." 12/04/2001 p.8-82 ReelViews 10 of 10
As entertaining as Harry Potter may be, it cannot hold a candle to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. With this production, Jackson has used The Lord of the Rings to re-invent fantasy for the cinema in the same way that the novel provided the blueprint for the written word. This astounding movie accomplishes what no other fantasy film has been able to do: transport viewers to an entirely different reality, immerse them in it, and maroon them there for nearly three hours. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring brings Middle Earth to glorious life...The strength of Jackson's vision as depicted in The Fellowship of the Ring gives movie-goers cause to hope that we may be in the midst of a cinematic achievement. If The Two Towers and The Return of the King live up to the standard set by this film, The Lord of the Rings will become a milestone not only for its genre, but for motion pictures in general. But, regardless of what the future brings, the single movie we now have before us stands out as one of the most rousing examples of entertainment to reach multiplexes in a long time. At last, someone has figured out how to do an epic fantasy justice on the big screen. - James Berardinelli
Reel.com 10 of 10
...a towering achievement. It's a sword-and-sorcery film packed with both childlike wonder and mature drama. To call it the best fantasy movie ever made would be giving it short shrift. It's one of the greatest adventure films, period, possessing the stirring story, gut-wrenching tragedy, and massive combat of a great epic like Spartacus or Braveheart. Throw in some mythos borrowed from Nordic legend and special effects on par with Industrial Light and Magic's best work, and you've got a three-hour eruption of imagination that only the most calcified curmudgeon wouldn't enjoy...Just like any other movie, The Fellowship of the Ring is only good as the sum of its parts, and the man putting all the pieces together is Peter Jackson. It's no easy task to juggle the demands of a single shoot, and Jackson oversaw three concurrent Cecil B. DeMille-scale productions -- Fellowship and its two sequels, The Two Towers (due Christmas 2002), and the Return of the King (due Christmas 2003) -- while simultaneously crafting dazzling effects, getting Oscar-caliber performances from his cast, and ensuring that the most popular novel of the 20th century became the first great film of the 21st. - Tor Thorsen
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