The Lord of the Rings is the story of the struggle between good and evil that winds its way not only through the fate of Middle-earth, but also through the life of every human being. If one doesn’t just focus on admiring the spectacular scenes and diverse, bizarre characters while watching the film, one can find many ideas in the story that the author has hidden throughout the work. The most obvious one is the ring itself.

The ring in a person’s life can take many forms, just as sin takes many forms. As with the ring, the more a person experiences the power of the ring-sin, the more it possesses him and grows in its power over him. The most striking succumbing to the power of the ring was in Gollum, who is an intimidating example of everyone’s flip side.

We are all on a journey somewhere between Frodo and Gollum. The stage of Gollum is the stage of inevitable doom. Gollum thought the ring would serve him, but the opposite was true. Gollum himself was to be just one of the tools of the dark lord Sauron.

Parents Guide: Kissing with Aragorn and Arwen. Multiple duels and battles between humans, hobbits, other inhabitants of Middle-earth, and Sauron’s and Saruman’s monsters. Drinking Beer. Gandalf’s smoking from his pipe. Several scenes where evil is subverted.

Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, Billy Boyd, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, Christopher Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Dourif, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Karl Urban, Bernard Hill, David Wenham, Andy Serkis, Craig Parker, Sean Bean, Nathaniel Lees, Robyn Malcolm, Hugo Weaving, Robbie Magasiva

Crew: Peter Jackson

USA, 2001

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