Returning to Middle-Earth

First [let me take a selfie!], play this awesome song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLZQtCold8

Now you can start reading!

Hi guys, another week has passed! And we are very happy to announce that today’s movie is the awesome, the outstanding, the WEFOIWEJFKFKEOFKAOWKR, The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) and The Fellowship of the Ring!!! [We hope that you are as excited as we are, which means: TOO EXCITED!!!!!*]

Well since António first watched this film, he fell in love, not only with the universe but with everything…  LOTR trilogy soon became António’s favourite films, with the Return of the King taking the first position.

The Fellowship of the Ring is the movie that brings anyone who likes Tolkien’s universe to tears, the first minute of The Shire with the description of it, and with that soft background music, makes any grown man or woman weep.

This film starts with Galadriel describing Middle-Earth and explaining how on earth the ONE RING disappeared from Isildur’s possession, and ended up with Bilbo Baggins!

And then, we are taken to The Shire, where Bilbo Baggins’s birthday party is being celebrated, but at the middle of the party, he just becomes invisible, due to the ring, and is followed by Gandalf an old giant beardy guy that happens to be his friend, whom wisdom and knowledge makes him understand that the ring might be more than a mere ring of power.

He ends up being right, because this ring is the one forged by Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom, which power is unbearable and may destroy the world if it falls on the wrong hands.

Since this ring may only be destroyed in the same place it was forged, a journey to take the ring to Mordor begins.

Sam, Pippin and Merry leave The Shire following Frodo, the ring bearer, firstly they headed to Bree, where Gandalf would be waiting for them, but Gandalf was betrayed by Saruman, the head of Gandalf’s order, therefore the most powerful of them, so he easily wins the duel versus Gandalf, and locks up in a tower (just to troll him, ‘cause wizards are afraid of heights!).

Frodo and the Hobbits are approached by a man, with the creepy name of Strider, who escorts them to Rivendell, where the elves will give them advices.

In the house of Elrond (the kind of James Bond of the Elves) a meeting to decide what to do with the ring is made, and the fellowship of the ring is created, composed by a dwarf – Gimli, an elf – Legolas, two men – Aragorn and Boromir, a wizard – Gandalf, and four hobbits – Peregrin Took, Meriadoc Brandybuck , Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins.

They face some dangers such as the fight against the Balrog of Mordor, in Moria, where Gandalf “died”, and all the hurdles caused by Saruman, even though Boromir starts to be persuaded by the ring, and tries to steal it from Frodo, he makes it up by trying to save merry and pippin from a bunch of Uruk-hais, with the cost of his life.

In the end Frodo and Sam run away from the rest of the Fellowship, going in their way to Mordor, while Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli start chasing the pack of Uruk-hais who abducted Pippin and Merry.

This film ends with a song called “The breaking of the fellowship”, which you should listen to.

We obviously love this movie, and Antonio already watched it more than 15 times [no joke, and extended version of course], so we give it a 9,982382434923 in a scale that goes from 0 to 10.

See you later when Gandalf returns from his death [WE KNOW YOU LOVE OUR SPOILERS!!!]!
    XOXO,
    GANDALF's GIRL (actually she's like 3000 years old...)

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*excited, but not in a sexual way (ok, maybe António is, but you know… He likes girls with swords**…).

** And mustaches (that's why he loves DADA art)