Lord of the Rings 1

yes ! I should have seen it long time back....probably in 2001 itself and took part in all the discussions i came across on net , infy BB.....but better late than never.....so here it goes...

Lord of the rings - Fellowship of the ring

The characters in the movie are numerous with additional mention of some random jumbled words - nuzbul, dum,goblins, orcs, barad-dur.....etc add up to my confusion......Its a huge glossary in itself ! I'd a tough time during the movie recollecting the names of the ppl (not really ppl) as and when they were appearing on the lappy screen.....oh this is pippin (the young jumpy hobbit), and this is Gollum (the ugly monkey like creature),Gimli (bearded and over clothed Dwarf...have seen him in some other movie too) , orcs(horrendous looking men like creatures who are all evil and ruined and terrible form of life as stated in the movie itself) and many more.....

The basic storyline is that there's one ring made by the evil Sauron(the dark lord) to rule over all other types of species present in the era of the middle earth (somewhere in 1200)... but during a war Sauron is destroyed byPrince Isildur(Human) and the ring is taken by him. The greed of power ensued by the ring invoked the corrupt soul inside Isildur too and he is killed too by orcs (army of Sauron)....and then ring goes in the hand of a Gollum and then it is picked up by a very friendly looking old hobbit - Bilbo Baggins !

The ring is kept inside the shire (the locality of the hobbits) under safe by bilbo. But after 60 years, the powers are ring are returning back as the soul of Sauron is rising and gaining his potential again.... Bilbo then hands the ring to a young hobbit Frodo to take care of him under the surveillance of Wizard Gandalf.....At one point of time all the species are gathered in Riverndell (the area of the elves) to discuss what to do with the ring....and it is decided to destroy the ring in the flames of the mount doom in the kingdom of Evil Mordor.....Frodo takes up the task and is supported and accompanied by his 3 hobbit friends (Cute Samwise Gamgee, pippin and Merry tooks) , Gandalf, gimli the dwarf,Aragorn the isildur successor who fears he will do the same as Isildur and become evil,Legolas (the elf) and Boromir (the son of steward of Gondor and who is attracted to the ring time and then)......The journey and the adventures of this gang describes the rest of the story ....and how they escape the army sent by the Sauron to destroy them.....and it is really thrilling to watch !

Its a hats off to J.R.R Tolkein to imagine and put into words such varied range of creatures and places and carve out a fantasy story of them.....I'm still watching it :)