To separate myself from possible spoilers also commenting here,
I won't criticize the Bakshi and Rankin/Bass efforts of previous
years, but this first Jackson film is quite worthy of a look - even if
the viewer hasn't gone on to the novels - which everyone should.
Not only is more detail there regarding this story of good and evil,
but Tolkien, a contemporary of Winston Churchill and an Oxford
philology professor, wrote with a quality comparable to the
wartime Prime Minister. The reader gets an education in English
oratory in the most painless of circumstances: read the books!!
I won't criticize the Bakshi and Rankin/Bass efforts of previous
years, but this first Jackson film is quite worthy of a look - even if
the viewer hasn't gone on to the novels - which everyone should.
Not only is more detail there regarding this story of good and evil,
but Tolkien, a contemporary of Winston Churchill and an Oxford
philology professor, wrote with a quality comparable to the
wartime Prime Minister. The reader gets an education in English
oratory in the most painless of circumstances: read the books!!