Genre: Action/ Adventure/Fantasy
Cast: Alan Howard ... The Ring (voice) Noel Appleby ... Everard Proudfoot Sean Astin ... Sam Gamgee Sala Baker ... Sauron Sean Bean ... Boromir Cate Blanchett ... Galadriel Orlando Bloom ... Legolas Greenleaf Billy Boyd ... Peregrin 'Pippin' Took Marton Csokas ... Celeborn Megan Edwards ... Mrs. Proudfoot Michael Elsworth ... Gondorian Archivist Mark Ferguson ... Gil-Galad Ian Holm ... Bilbo Baggins Christopher Lee ... Saruman Lawrence Makoare ... Lurtz
Awards:Won 4 Oscars. Another 77 wins & 83 nominations
This is a film adaptation of the trilogy book called ‘The lord of the rings’, which has been very important for the fantastic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. The long legacy of Tolkien’s and the massive number of fans that adore this book, were the main reason to make New Line Cinema decide to invest a lot of money with the named director Peter Jackson. Against all adds Jackson made the 3 movies without care some aspects of the original version of the book and still had success with all the public and fans, and the critics. Companies like EA Games(Game providers), have made various games of the saga, including different categories and versions of the recognized master piece production.
This great movie is about the adventures of Frodo, a hobbit from the middle earth who had to abandon his village with one objective: Throw a ring into the fire inside of the‘mountain of doom’, a ring which was forged by the dark lord Sauron to control the world.
The first part of this journey ‘The fellowship of the ring’ begins with Frodo’s task of traveling and facing enemies like ‘The nazguls’ (evil immortal wizards) who wanted to get the ring for Sauron. There were more people involved in this long journey. Some of them were hobbits, friends of Frodo (Sam and the brothers Tuk) and others like Aragorn the Isildur heir, Gandalf The White Wizard, Legolas, the son of the king of the elves from the woods, Gimly, the dwarf, and Boromir from Gondor. All of them joined together in Rivendel to begin the journey.
On other hand it was Saruman, first ally and servant of Sauron, which created a huge army of Uruk Hai (Orcs mixed with goblins) with only one purpose. To exterminate all humans and creatures of the earth.
The war starts in the chapter 2 of this movie called ‘The TwoTtowers’ a name that was given because the union of the 2 towers (Sauron and Saruman as one evil force). The first encounter was with Rohan, a huge kingdom of men, lead by the King Theoden who was possessed by Saruman, and later released from his curse by Gandalf. Rohan didn’t want a war, but war was upon them , so they had to move down to Helm’s Deep, a huge fortress made to protect them in case of war. Aragorn, Gimly and Legolas were there with Theoden together with his people, but Saruman sent all his army to defeat Rohan. More than 10.000 Uruk Hai warrior were sent to war, which were defeated by Galdalf and Eomer (the first man of Rohan, rider of the mark) at dawn, after a war they weren’t supposed to win. At the same time The Ents (Trees with life)leadered by Treebeard of the haunted forest, attacked Isengard (Saruman’s Kingdom) and destroyed everything and finished with Saruman’s orde.
Later on, in the third part called ‘The return of the king’ they had to face their stronger enemy: Mordor with it’s leader Sauron together with thousands of orcs and corrupted men’s of the north in his army. Frodo and Sam were still traveling to the mountain of doom, to threw the ring into the forge of fire, while Sauron was moving his army to Gondor, the last kingdom of men. Gondor was strong but not enough to defeat Sauron’s army; no one was. They needed more than men, swords and horses to defeat him. So Aragorn which was the predecessor of the throne Gondor, had to face the dead warriors and traitors of Gondor and call them from their graves to war, and defeat this great army. Indeed they defeat them but it wasn’t enough. The ring had to be destroyed by Frodo, otherwise the evil will keep prevailing forever. Alter Frodo and Sam faced their worst enemies; the huge spider in the tunnels of the mountain of doom and also the orcs and monsters inside of Mordor. But upon all of this, they completed their dangerous task. The ring was destroyed and all the evil was gone forever.
Even with a great movie like this, it cannot be 100% perfect. Indeed there’s more details involved, too may parts missed of the book. But the important thing is that this great movie, great effects, cast, production, artwork, etc. Now there’s available the 3 parts on extended edition versions ,with approximately 45 minutes each which are great. Just time will say if Peter Jackson or any other director will made the 4th part of this great saga
‘The return of the witch king’ which had been made already for the fans of console and pc games.
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