The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Okay, This time I have started a trilogy that was postponed years ago just because of its runtime, hehehe. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and today I watched the first one, The Fellowship of the Ring. Most of the cine guys must have watched them already, that could be years ago too. But trust me, when I first tried to watch, the first thing that bugged me was its runtime, something around 3 hours and 30 minutes is kinda huge. There could be a few comments on this like, "You could have gone with the 3-hour one, watch in multiple portions, tv-shows take way more time than this." Trust me I know these too and I have a worthy counter for these comments too. Well, at last, I have started watching the trilogy and will complete it for sure.

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy are epic fantasy adventure films that were directed by Peter Jackson based on a novel of the same name written by J.R.R Tolkien. The Fellowship of the Rings was released in 2001.

The film starts with a story where we were taken to the Second Age of Middle-earth and a dark lord named Sauron gives rings to different lords of elves, dwarves, and men but he keeps a ring himself that is the superior of all, one that holds the power beyond all the other rings to dominate them. But in a war, Sauron loses his finger with the ring and gets by Isildur, he was meant to destroy the ring but got influenced and tries to keep it for himself and gets killed by the orcs. Surprisingly the Ring gets lost for thousands of years and is later found by another creature named Gollum and he keeps it for hundreds of years later it gets away from him and is found by Bilbo Baggins, that's where the real story starts to begin. The narration in the beginning is pretty impressive to hook someone with the story just to know, "What happened next?"

There are two key characters that are related to Bilbo, one is his nephew Frodo Baggins and the other is Bilbo's friend Gandalf, they are very close to one another. Bilbo is unaware of the ring's true power and the story behind it but keeps it safe with him, Frodo always being curious about Bilbo, and Gandalf is his best friend. When Bilbo leaves for adventure after his 111th birthday celebration, giving the ring to Frodo to keep, things start to get worse. Sauron is trying to find his lost ring, also the ring for its spirit. Gandalf finds out about its history and gives its responsibility to Frodo to run away to keep it safe.

Me just narrating the story? Ah, I guess so too. Well, that's a huge film, a very long one, I must pass out the beginning to draw the rest of the impression. As I mentioned about the run of Frodo with the ring is the whole story about. In the meantime, we would see multiple battles, different communities, allies, history behind this, temptation, the acceptance of the rings, and the journey by the fellowship of the ring to destroy it. Destroy? Why? How? and where? Answers comes with the story, It can only be destroyed in the fire of Mount Doom. Remember Isildur? The person who got influenced and corrupted to have the ring at the beginning of all this, had the chance to destroy it by Mount Doom, only this is the place to destroy it, no way around. And the Fellowship is on their way and Frodo is the ring bearer.

The story is so long that I am not finding a proper way to express my impressions, let's keep aside the story and speak my mind. As the long runtime was bugging me I lost that odd feeling just after the story behind the ring reveals and when things started to get worse. That was the time when I got sunk into the story and had no way back, trust me I haven't looked at the time after that, just let the story flow on its own way and me enjoying it to its fullest. Loyalty, disloyalty, battles, riddles, mystery, temptation, treachery, and sacrifice were coming my way one after another with the flow. These kinda mysterious adventure films are very easy to sink into. The journey hasn't reached any conclusion, the ring is still on its way with Frodo and so many obstacles on their way. Due to this unfinished journey, I am gonna sit for the next one very soon.