In the mid-1950s, J.R.R. Tolkien's novel "The Lord of the Rings" was published in three volumes. The first of the three volumes was called "The Fellowship of the Ring," and it was followed by "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King." Tolkien envisioned "The Lord of the Rings" as one long continuous story, but it was his publisher who insisted on spreading it over three separate volumes.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring takes place in an alternate world called Middle-earth, where the talking inhabitants have lifestyles rather similar to those of Europeans during the Dark Ages. One such inhabitant is a gentle, pure-hearted soul named Frodo (Elijah Wood), who is a Hobbit, a peace-loving, human-like race whose members are roughly half the size of humans.
Through a series of events, Frodo happens to come into possession of a magic ring that imparts great power to anyone who slips it on his finger. But the good wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) realizes that Frodo has the one-of-a-kind Ring of Power, which inevitably corrupts its wearer. Furthermore, if the Ring is not destroyed in the fires of a mountain deep inside the territory called Mordor, the entire world will fall under the domination of an evil sorcerer, resulting in terrible suffering.
With the assistance of a few fellow mischievous Hobbits (Sam Gamgee (Sean Astin), Pippin Took (Billy Boyd) and Merry Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan)), Frodo sets out to keep the ring safe, with little knowledge of the true powers that are in his control, and the great dangers he is about to encounter. With the forming of a Fellowship to help guide Frodo along his path to Mordor to destroy the ring where it was created, all races have put their fate and faith in their newfound Hobbit friend.
Fellowship of the Rings is easy to enjoy, though it can be a bit laborious to sit through at times, and it plants the seeds for a great saga to come, while still performing at a high level of excellence itself.
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