The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings movie directed by Jackson is magnificent.Make sure you go and see this film.

This movie has lavish production values.and the actors do a wonderful job of bringing J.R.R. Tolkiens work to the screen. The director, New Zealander, Peter Jackson,gave equal weight to both production scenes, and the interplay of characters. The script was faithful to the much loved book-'Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings,' penned 50 years ago, by noted Oxford scholar and storyteller, J.R.R. Tolkein.

Peter Jackson, a New Zealander,spent 7 years crafting this movie trilogy. He is the first director ever to simultaniously film three feature length movies at once.The films backers spent over $300,000,000 to bring this work to the screen.This is an investment that may very well eventually look extremely good .

The level of detail here is 'breathtaking.' Tolkien scholar Bill Welden stated that more than 900 pieces of armor, 2000 weapons, 1600 prosthetic ears and feet, and more than $20,000 household items were hand made for the film version from scratch by craftsmen.

"Tolkien makes me feel clean in ways that nothing else does".
-A quote from a student of Tolkien scholar, Dr.Ralph Wood.

One thing I especially liked about Tolkien's work, and which is reflected in the film , is Tolkien did not characterize the human characters in LOTR as 'wizards' or 'superheroes'. For instance, in the Council of Endron the character Bolimer says "The Men of Gondor are valiant, but they may be beaten down." Later on Boromir is seen to covet the one Ring lustily, and he even tries to use force to get it away from our hobbit friend Frodo. As for the Tolkien's 'wizards' such as Gandalf, they are not not really practioners of magic in the conventional sense like J.D. Rowling's "Harry Potter", but are mysterious powerful characters, who eventually are revealed to be essentually angelic beings.

Tolkien was a Roman Catholic and it is not hard to find elements of Christian belief throughout the story. People looking for Christian parallels may, however, find that ultimately they are disappointed since religion in itself is missing. Tolkien's view is that the religious element is absorbed into the story and into the symbolism.

In his article J R R Tolkien: Truth and Myth, Joseph Pearce sums up the genius of The Lord of the Rings: 'The power of Tolkien lies in the way that he succeeds, through myth, in making the unseen hand of providence felt by the reader ... Paradoxically, fiction works with facts, albeit invented facts, whereas myth works with truth, albeit truth dressed in fancy disguises. Furthermore, since facts are physical and truth is metaphysical, myth, being metaphysical, is spiritual'.

The film version is faithful to Tolkien's viewpoint, too.At the end of the day, we know that the work of this gifted author reveals Tolkien's genuine humility,spirituality and decency.