Full of eye-popping special effects, and featuring a pitch-perfect cast, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring brings J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to vivid life.
. New Zealand. United States Language English Budget $93 million Box office $871.5 million The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 directed by based on the of 's.
It is the first instalment in, and was followed by (2002) and (2003), based on the second and third volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Set in, the story tells of the Dark Lord , who is seeking the. The Ring has found its way to the young. The fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance as Frodo and eight companions who form the begin their journey to in the land of, the only place where the Ring can be destroyed. Released on 10 December 2001, the film was highly acclaimed by critics and fans alike who considered it to be a landmark in film-making and an achievement in the fantasy film genre. It has continued to be featured on critic lists of the, as of 2017.
The film earned over $871 million worldwide and became the second highest-grossing film of 2001 in the US and worldwide (behind ). It was nominated for thirteen at the ceremony, including, and for McKellen, winning four, for,. It also won four, including Best Film and Best Director BAFTA awards. The Special Extended Edition was released on on 12 November 2002 and on on 28 June 2011.
In 2007, The Fellowship of the Ring was voted No. 50 on the 's list of. The AFI also voted it the second greatest fantasy film of all time during their special.
The film ranks #24 on 's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. The inscriptions on the Ring Jackson, Walsh and Boyens made numerous changes to the story, for purposes of pacing and character development. Jackson said his main desire was to make a film focused primarily on Frodo and the Ring, the 'backbone' of the story. The prologue condenses Tolkien's backstory, in which The Last Alliance's seven-year siege of the is a single battle, where Sauron is shown to explode, though Tolkien only said his spirit flees. Events from the book are condensed or omitted altogether at the beginning of the film. The time between Gandalf leaving the Ring to Frodo and returning to reveal its inscription, which is 17 years in the book, is compressed for timing reasons. Frodo also spends a few months preparing to move to Buckland, on the eastern border of the Shire.
This move is omitted, and associated events, including the involvement of Merry and Pippin, are changed and combined with him setting out for Bree. Characters such as and the incidents in the Old Forest and the Barrow Downs are left out to simplify the plot and increase the threat of the.
Such sequences are left out to make time to introduce Saruman, who doesn't appear in the book until Gandalf's account at the Council of Elrond. While some characters are left out, some are referenced such as the trolls Tom, Bert, and William to show how The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series intertwine. Saruman's role is enhanced: he is to blame for the blizzard on Caradhras, a role taken from Sauron and/or Caradhras itself in the book. Gandalf's capture by Saruman is also expanded with a fight sequence. The role of at the Prancing Pony is largely removed for time and dramatic flow. In the film Pippin is seen to identify Frodo explicitly with the phrase 'why there's Baggins over there' whereas in the book Pippin is only telling the tale of Bilbo's disappearance when Strider tells Frodo to create a distraction, which he does by singing a song.
The events at Weathertop were also altered. The location of the fight against the Ringwraiths was changed to the ruins on top of the hill rather than a campsite at its base. When Frodo was stabbed in the book, the party spent two weeks travelling to Rivendell, but in the film this is shortened to less than a week, with Frodo's condition worsening at a commensurately greater rate. Was given a greater role in the film, accompanying Frodo all the way to Rivendell, while in the book Frodo faced the Ringwraiths alone at the. The character of was omitted entirely and his scenes were also given to Arwen. She was tacitly credited with the river rising against the Ringwraiths, which was the work of her father with aid from in the book.
A significant new addition is Aragorn's self-doubt, which causes him to hesitate to claim the kingship of Gondor. This element is not present in the book, where Aragorn intends to claim the throne at an appropriate time. In the book Narsil is reforged immediately when he joins the Fellowship, but this event is held over until in film to symbolically coincide with his acceptance of his title. These elements were added because Peter Jackson believed that each character should be forced to grow or change over the course of the story. 's character gained an adversarial edge; he expresses doubts in the strength of Men to resist Sauron's evil after Isildur's failure to destroy the ring as depicted in the prologue. Jackson also shortens the Council of Elrond by spreading its exposition into earlier parts of the film.
Elrond's counsellor, —who suggested the Ring be given to —was completely absent from this scene. Gimli's father, was also deemed unnecessary. In addition, the movie makes it seem by chance that the Fellowship is made of nine companions, whereas in the book Elrond suggests there be nine in the fellowship in response to the nine. The tone of the Moria sequence was altered. In the book, following the defeat on the Caradhras road, Gandalf advocates the Moria road against the resistance of the rest of the Fellowship (save Gimli), suggesting 'there is a hope that Moria is still free.there is even a chance that Dwarves are there,' though no one seems to think this likely. Frodo proposes they take a company vote, but the discovery of on their trail forces them to accept Gandalf's proposal.
They only realise the Dwarves are all dead once they reach 's tomb. The filmmakers chose instead for Gandalf to resist the Moria plan as a device. Gandalf says to Gimli he would prefer not to enter Moria, and Saruman is shown to be aware of Gandalf's hesitance, revealing an illustration of the Balrog in one of his books.
The corpses of the dwarves are instantly shown as the Fellowship enter Moria. One detail that many critics commented upon is the fact that, in the novel, Pippin tosses a mere pebble into the well in Moria ('They then hear what sounds like a hammer tapping in the distance'), whereas in the film, he knocks an entire skeleton in ('Next, the skeleton.
Falls down the well, also dragging down a chain and bucket. The noise is incredible.' ) In terms of dramatic structure, the book simply ends; there is no climax, because Tolkien wrote the 'trilogy' as a single story published in three volumes.
Jackson's version incorporates the first chapter of 'The Two Towers' and makes its events, told in real time instead of flashback, simultaneous with the Breaking of the Fellowship. This finale is played as a climactic battle, into which he introduces the Uruk-hai referred to as Lurtz in the script.
In the book, Boromir is unable to tell Aragorn which hobbits were kidnapped by the orcs before he dies. From there, Aragorn deduces Frodo's intentions when he notices that a boat is missing and Sam's pack is gone.
In the film, Aragorn and Frodo have a scene together in which Frodo's intentions are explicitly stated. Production Development began working with to the series in August 1997, as well as getting and to begin creating his interpretation of Middle-earth. Jackson told them to make Middle-earth as plausible and believable as possible, to think of Middle-earth in a historical manner. In November, and became the film trilogy's primary conceptual designers, having had previous experience as illustrators for the book and various other tie-ins. Lee worked for the Art Department creating places such as, and, giving and influences to the Elves and Dwarves respectively.
Though Howe contributed with Bag End and the, he focused working on armour having studied it all his life. Weta and the Art Department continued to design, with turning the Art Department's designs into architecture, and scouting locations. On 1 April 1999, joined the crew as costume designer. She and 40 seamstresses would create 19,000 costumes, 40 per version for the actor and their doubles, ageing and wearing them out for impression of age. Filming locations. See also: The for The Lord of the Rings films was composed. It was performed by the 100-strong, the, the, The, and the Maori Samoan Choir, and featured several vocal soloists.
Shore wrote almost four hours of finalised music for the film (of which just over three hours are used as underscore), featuring a number of non-orchestral instruments, and a large number (49-62) of. Two original songs, ' and the end title theme ', were composed and sung by, who allowed her label, to release the soundtrack to this and its two sequels. In addition to these songs, Shore composed ', which was sung by Edward Ross of the London Oratory School Schola. Release A special behind-the-scenes trailer was released in 2000. The trilogy teaser was shown before and the teaser trailer before. The final trailer was with the television premiere of and before. Both trailers appeared as Easter eggs on the DVD and on the.
Home media The Fellowship of the Ring was released on VHS and DVD in August 2002. Theatrical and extended release In November 2002, an extended edition was released on VHS and DVD, with 30 minutes of new material, added special effects and music, plus 20 minutes of fan-club credits, totalling to 228 minutes. The DVD set included four commentaries and over three hours of supplementary material. In August 2006, a limited edition of The Fellowship of the Ring was released on DVD.
The set included both the film's theatrical and extended editions on a along with all-new bonus material. Blu-ray edition The theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings was released in the United States in April 2010. There were two separate sets: one with digital copies and one without.
The individual Blu-ray disc of The Fellowship of the Ring was released in September 2010 with the same special features as the complete trilogy release, except there was no digital copy. The extended Blu-ray editions were released in the US in June 2011. This version has a runtime of 238 minutes (the extended editions include the names of all fan club members at the time of their release; the additional 9 minutes in the Blu-ray version are because of expanded member rolls, not any additional story material).
Reception Box office The Fellowship of the Ring was released on 19 December 2001 in 3,359 cinemas where it grossed $47.2 million on its opening weekend. The world premiere was held at the in London. It went on to make $314.7 million in North America and $555.9 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $870.7 million. Estimates that the film sold over 54 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. Critical response The Fellowship of the Ring was acclaimed by film critics and was one of 2001's best reviewed films. The film holds a 91% approval rating on aggregate review site based on 227 reviews and an average score of 8.2/10. The site's main consensus reads 'Full of eye-popping special effects, and featuring a pitch-perfect cast, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring brings J.R.R.
Tolkien's classic to vivid life'. The film holds a score of 92 out of 100 on based on 34 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim', with the film gaining the site's seal of 'Must See'.
Gave the film three out of four stars and stating that while it is not 'a true visualization of Tolkien's Middle-earth', it is 'a work for, and of, our times. It will be embraced, I suspect, by many Tolkien fans and take on aspects of a cult. It is a candidate for many Oscars. It is an awesome production in its daring and breadth, and there are small touches that are just right'. Also gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, 'this movie version of a beloved book should please devotees as well as the uninitiated'.
In his review for, wrote, 'The playful spookiness of Mr. Jackson's direction provides a lively, light touch, a gesture that doesn't normally come to mind when Tolkien's name is mentioned'. Magazine gave the film an 'A' rating and Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote, 'The cast take to their roles with becoming modesty, certainly, but Jackson also makes it easy for them: His Fellowship flows, never lingering for the sake of admiring its own beauty. Every detail of which engrossed me.
I may have never turned a page of Tolkien, but I know enchantment when I see it'. In her review for, Rita Kempley praised the cast, in particular, 'Mortensen, as Strider, is a revelation, not to mention downright gorgeous. And McKellen, carrying the burden of thousands of years' worth of the fight against evil, is positively Merlinesque'. Magazine's Richard Corliss praised Jackson's work: 'His movie achieves what the best fairy tales do: the creation of an alternate world, plausible and persuasive, where the young — and not only the young — can lose themselves. And perhaps, in identifying with the little Hobbit that could, find their better selves'.
In his review for, wrote, 'Peter Jackson's adaptation is certainly successful on its own terms'. Magazine's wrote, 'It's emotion that makes Fellowship stick hard in the memory. Jackson deserves to revel in his success. He's made a three-hour film that leaves you wanting more'. However, in his review for, Peter Bradshaw wrote, 'there is a strange paucity of plot complication, an absence of anything unfolding, all the more disconcerting because of the clotted and indigestible mythic back story that we have to wade through before anything happens at all'. In polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of 'A−' on an A+ to F scale.
Accolades. Main article: In, the film won four from thirteen nominations. The winning categories were for,.
It was also nominated for , (, and for '), (, and ),. As of January 2014, it is the 31st highest-grossing film worldwide, with US$871,530,324 in worldwide theatrical box office receipts. The film won the 2002. It also won readers' Best Film award, as well as five, including, the Award for, the Audience Award (voted for by the public),.
The film was nominated for an between Gandalf and Saruman. In June 2008, AFI revealed its '—the ten best films in ten 'classic' American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The Fellowship of the Ring was acknowledged as the second best film in the fantasy genre. The film was also listed as the 50th best film in the 2007 list.
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