The bad guys, all thundering hooves and billowing capes, seem to have come from the core of every nightmare since the world began. Every detail, from the tiniest plant to the hugest battle, is exactly, satisfyingly right. Peter Jackson, who directed and co-wrote the script, has created a movie that seems astonishingly inventive and new and at the same time somehow seems as though it always existed inside us. And it's a story that invites us into a fully realized world with many different civilizations, all so thoroughly imagined that we don't only believe that they each have complete languages, but that they have dictionaries, histories, mythologies, schools, music, and poetry. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a once-in-a-generation, not since Star Wars, transcendent reminder of why we tell stories, why we have imagination, and why we must go on quests to test our spirits and heal the world. Somewhere, there are future Hollywood directors who will tell magazine feature writers that they first decided to make movies as they watched this film it's that good.
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