The Fellowship of the Ring: The Beginning of an Era

Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.

Frodo Baggins portrayed by Elijah Wood

The Fellowship of the Ring, is the one, and the first film of the worldwide well-known thrilogy of the massive book saga The Lord of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson.

It is the first step into that distant, mist-wreathed world, which this director is able to create from New Zealand landscapes. The technology developments, and the uses of scaling and miniatures meant the beginning of a new era of the science fiction films. Peter Jackson has the capacity of creating a hole idyllic world, in which these elfs, magicians and hobbits coexist.

Beginning with an eight-minute prologue setting up the legend of the ring, the hole story revolves around a ring with the power to destroy the world has passed from the dark lord Sauron to Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). Frodo is a hobbit, a munchkin-short, sweet-natured, furry-footed species with a love of peace and of smoking pipeweed. Gandalf the good wizard (Ian McKellen) tells Frodo it’s his mission to travel east to Mordor to dump that ring into Mount Doom. Frodo takes along three fellow hobbits, Sam (Sean Astin), Pippin (Billy Boyd) and Merry (Dominic Monaghan); two human warriors, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and Boromir (Sean Bean); the archer elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom); and the dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) into a big life-changing journey.

But, despite the ability of creating the world that J.R.R Tolkien described on his books, what is quite remarkable is Peter Jackson’s job as a director. Being used to a 16 million budget, Peter Jackson and his crew were trusted to do a trilogy with a 400 million budget. A unknown director, far away from the Hollywood sharks and critics, was able to fulfill everyone’s expectations with a movie, that in comparison with its sequels, has a important decrease in the amount of digital shots, and was done quite practically.

The Fellowship of the Rings, was the beginning of an era, The Lord of the Rings moved masses, and Jackson’s work is still applauded today.