Fellowship of the Ring Hit and Miss
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With The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson starts off the epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien's literary masterpiece was long in the making. Tolkien meandered through the first chapters of his book, experienced long bouts of writers block, and even despaired of it ever being completed. A difficult book, indeed! If the author himself had trouble getting such a story on paper, imagine the task PJ and his team had in getting it on to film. As with many movies translated from books, there were things that changed, remained the same, worked, and failed.
The film opens with the tale of the creation of the Rings of Power...