The
Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
"One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them.
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
For decades, the words above have
ignited the imaginations of more than 100 million readers
around the globe. They were first read in 1954, when J.R.R.
Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume
in his towering three-part epic, The Lord of the Rings,
was published.
Tolkien’s work was to have
a profound effect on generations of readers, defining for
many the archetypal struggle between good and evil, and
was voted in worldwide polls the “Book of the Century.”
It set the benchmark for the modern epic in its creation
of an entirely new and thrillingly vital universe. It introduced
an unforgettable hero – the Hobbit Frodo Baggins –
caught up in a war of mythic proportions in Middle-earth,
a world full of magic and lore. Most of all, it celebrated
the power of loyal friendship and individual courage, a
power that may hold at bay even the most devastating forces
of darkness.
Now, the legend that Tolkien imagined
is finally being brought to life on the motion picture screen,
an undertaking that has required nothing less than one of
the most colossal movie productions ever embarked upon.
The mythos, landscapes, and creatures Tolkien created are
so vast and detailed in scope that it has taken more than
four decades for cinema technology to reach the necessary
level of sophistication to bring his universe to powerful
and palpable life. Such a project would require nothing
less than a visionary to take it on, and a first-ever experiment
in filmmaking to make the simultaneous production of all
three films possible. Tolkien’s epic found a passionate
and dedicated shepherd in director/writer/producer Peter
Jackson.
For the past two years, Jackson and
his devoted production team of over 2400 have been filming
all over the spectacular landscapes of New Zealand. The
result has been the deployment of a logistical operation
on par with an intricate and wide-reaching military campaign.
An army of artists – including digital experts, medieval
weapons designers, stone sculptors, linguists, costumers,
make-up artists, blacksmiths and model builders –
as well as an internationally-renowned cast of actors and
over 26,000 extras have gathered to make this ambitious
dream come true.
The result will be three separate
installments released one year apart, beginning December
19, 2001, when The Fellowship of the Ring introduces to
movie audiences the extraordinary world of Middle-earth.
In this part of the trilogy, the
young Hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a ring; but this ring
is no mere trinket. It is the One Ring, an instrument of
absolute power that could allow Sauron, the dark Lord of
Mordor, to rule Middle-earth and enslave its peoples. Frodo,
together with a Fellowship that includes his loyal Hobbit
friends, Humans, a Wizard, a Dwarf and an Elf, must take
the One Ring across Middle-earth to Mount Doom, where it
first was forged, and destroy it forever. Such a journey
means venturing deep into territory manned by Sauron, where
he is amassing his army of Orcs. And it is not only external
evils that the Fellowship must combat, but also internal
dissension and the corrupting influence of the One Ring
itself. The course of future history is entwined with the
fate of the Fellowship.
New
Line Cinema presents a Wingnut Films Production, The Lord
of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The film is directed
by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa
Boyens and Peter Jackson based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The producers are Barrie M. Osborne and Peter Jackson.
The film CAST
Elijah
Wood as Frodo Baggins
Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
Sir Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins
Sean Astin as Sam Gamgee
Billy Boyd as Pippin Took
Dominic Monaghan as Merry Brandybuck
Orlando Bloom as Legolas
John Rhys-Davies as Gimli
John Rhys-Davies (voice) as Treebeard
Sean Bean as Boromir
Cate Blanchett as Galadriel
Liv Tyler as Arwen
Christopher Lee as Saruman
Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue
Andy Serkis (voice) as Smeagol (Gollum)
Bernard Hill as Theoden
Hugo Weaving as Elrond
Miranda Otto as Eowyn
Marton Csokas as Celeborn
Brian Sergent as Ted Sandyman
Craig Parker as Haldir
David Wenham as Faramir
Karl Urban as Eomer
John Noble as Denethor
Paul Sutera as Lotho Sackville-Baggins
Jay Laga'aia as Ugluk
Stephen Ure as Gorbag
John Leigh as Hama
Bruce Spence as The Mouth of Sauron
Mark Ferguson as Gil Galad
Harry Sinclair as Isildur
Peter MacKenzie as Elendil
Robyn Malcolm as Morwen
Bruce Hopkins as Gamling
Sarah McLeod as Rosie Cotton
Alexandra Astin as Elanor Gamgee
Martyn Sanderson as Harry Goatleaf
Cameron Rhodes as Farmer Maggot
Lawrence Makoare as Lurtz
Sala Baker as Sauron and Lurtz |
Lord
of the Rings
One Volume Hardcover with Illustrations
by Alan Lee,
and Letter from Peter Jackson
The
Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion (The Lord of the
Rings)
by Jude Fisher (Author), J.R.R. Tolkien |
