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The
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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The first installment of Peter
Jackson's
motion picture trilogy,"The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the
Ring ", appeared in 2001. It is based on "The Fellowship
of the Ring". It is part one of a cinematographic trilogy,
of which the other two movies appeared in 2002 and 2003. It is the
first movie project ever made shooting 3 movies at the same time.
New Line Cinema invested more than 240 million USD in this project.
The movie was recorded in New Zealand.
TITLE: The
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
YEAR: 2001 (Dec 17th)
TYPE: Motion
Picture
DIRECTED BY:
Peter Jackson
STORYLINE:
J.R.R. Tolkien (books), Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa
Boyens
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Elijah Wood
as Frodo Baggins
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Ian McKellen
as Gandalf
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Sean Astin
as Samwise Gamgee
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Viggo Mortensen
as Aragorn
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Dominic
Monaghan as Meriadoc
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Billy Boyd
as Pippin
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Ian Holm
as Bilbo Baggins
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Sean Bean
as Boromir
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Orlando
Bloom as Legolas
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John Rhys-Davies
as Gimli
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Christopher
Lee as Saruman
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Cate
Blanchett as Galadriel
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Liv
Tyler as Arwen
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Andy Serkis
as Gollum
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MUSIC: Howard
Shore
CONCEPT ART:
Alan Lee and John Howe
RUNTIME:
172 min
COUNTRY:
New Zealand/USA
LANGUAGE:
English
AWARDS: 5
x BAFTA Award (2002), 4 x Oscar (2002, 13 nominations))
STUDIO:
New Line Cinema
In 1995, director
Peter Jackson started a huge project, trying to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's
masterpiece to the Big Screen. Together with wife Fran Walsh and
co-writer Philippa Boyens, Jackson adapted the book to a filmable
screenplay. He planned to film the book as a trilogy.
After initially been contracted by Miramax, New Line Cinema
was the film company which dared to take the step to finance 3
movies at once. It was Jackson's goal to record all three movies
with the same cast within 14 months. New Line agreed to invest
240 million USD in the project. On the 11th of September 1999,
filming started. The environment in which the movie was filmed
was New Zealand. The variability and roughness of this country
was the ideal setting for the landscapes required in the movie.
Artists John
Howe and Alan Lee agreed to join the project as conceptional artists.
Their experience in bringing the world of Middle Earth to paper
contributed in the design of the movie. New Zealand based WETA
International was the special effects and props company who took
care of the important CGI effects in the movie. According to Peter
Jackson "was the time and technologie right for bringing
the book to life".
The movie
was generally received positively and generated $870 million worldwide. The movie, as other Tolkien
movies in the past, is not completely accurate compared to the
book. The Tom Bombadil/Old Forest scenes are not present, Arwen
(!) saves Frodo in stead of Glorfindel at the Fords of Bruinen
and so on. But generally, these changes are considered to be in the best interest
for the movie, making it comprehensible for the general public (although many hard-line Tolkien fans have their objections).
LOTR: The
Fellowship of the Ring is in the top 10 of the world's most commercially
successfull movies (#7, situation jan 2004; click here for current rank). It has won 4 Oscars during the 74th Annual
Academy Awards. Furthermore, the DVD editions of FOTR, among which a 4 DVD director's cut edition with over 30 minutes added scenes, were bestsellers.
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-
www.lordoftherings.com : Movie section
- The Lord of
the Rings, the official movie guide. Brian Sibley HarperCollins
Publishers, 2001.
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Tolkien Art : Artists inspired by Tolkien:
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-=[RBoW]=- LOTR:TTT : Peter Jackson's movie The
Two Towers
-=[RBoW]=- LOTR:ROTK : Peter Jackson's movie Return
of the King
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