The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954?1955). Set in Middle-earth, the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron, who is seeking the One Ring. The Ring has found its way to the young hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). The fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance as Frodo and eight companions form the...
Gandalf and Frodo sit at Bilbo's table, the Ring lay upon it.
Frodo finds the Ring where he stashed it. Gandolf throws it into the fireplac...
Bilbo compliments some of the guests at his birthday party.
Bilbo sits at his kitchen table. He has a distant look in his eye as he speaks.
Galadriel, in her wisdom, tells of the fate of Middle Earth.
Frodo has slipped on the mountain slope and has drop the ring. Boromir picks ...
Sam steps from the brush he was hiding in, an earshot from the council.
Representatives from all of Middle Earth, Dwarfs, Elf and Men, gather to disc...
Aragorn picks up the shards of Narsil from where Boromir droped it. Arwen ent...
Gandalf smokes his pipe as he drives the cart. Frodo sits beside him and spea...
Galadriel speaks of the Rings of Power given to men, dwarfs and elves being s...
The Bulrog reaches out with his whip and pulls Gandalf into the abyss with hi...
The steps through the mines are broken. The half lings are aided across a gap...
Gandalf opens Frodo's shirt to reveal the Mithril garment given him by Bilbo ...
While lecturing Frodo the proper direction to take in the mines comes to Gand...
Gandalf speaks to Frodo's stating that Bilbo should have killed Gollum when h...
Gandalf provides light from his staff. Boromir looks about and see the remain...
The Fellowship is stalled on the mountain side. Gandalf puts the question of ...
After Gandalf tells Saruman that the Ring of Power has been in the Shire unde...
Legolas tells Aragorn that they are spening to much time in mines of Moria wh...
Bilbo's remark, as he stands before his guests, causes them to raise their ey...
Bilbo puffs up defiantly at Gandalf for telling him to part with the Ring. Ga...
Frodo returns to Bilbo's after he and Sam leave the pub. He is surprised by G...
In Bilbo's house, Gandalf speaks of Gollum and the information he provided to...
Sam laying on the table on his back, is looking up at Gandalf's imposing figure.
Gandalf, parting from the Hobbits, rides to Isengard to seek Saruman's guidance.
Gandalf turns slowly to look at his old friend Saruman.
Pippin and Merry bump into Frodo and Sam, literally, on the path while talking.
The four Hobbits are in the dark forest at night. Merry ask Frodo what he kno...
Sam and Frodo are concerned with Gandalf not showing. Pippin and Merry are co...
Sam busts into the room with his fist up, Pippen and Marry by his side. Arago...
The Orcs labor under Saruman's command. They pull the trees up by their roots...
As Aragorn tends to Frodo, a blade is placed to his throat.
Saruman has Gandalf at his mercy. He gives him one hinal oportunity to join f...
The Fellowship takes rest. Pippen and Merry receive fighting lessons while Gi...
Elrond refers to man's failure to destroy the ring.
Gandalf tells Frodo of the outside world as they ride through the Shire.
While sitting at Bilbo's table, Gandalf tells Bilbo that Frodo knows that Bil...
Galadriel tells a tell of centuries passing. From the creation of the Ring t...
Gandalf strikes his staff on the bridge, causing it to collapse beneath the B...
The cave troll stabs Frodo with a spear. He survives it relatively unharmed.
In the mines, Pippen has created yet another disturbance that calls peril to ...
In the mines of Moria, Gandalf councils Frodo when he despairs at being the R...
Frodo hears something else in the mines. Gandalf tells him it's Gollum.
The doors to Moria open. The Fellowship enter cautiously, all except for Giml...
Gimli suggest they go through the mines of Moria. Seeing Gandalf's thoughts f...
Saving then from the Wraith's not sufficient to merit their trust, the Hobbit...
Gandalf and Bilbo sit ,blowing rings and ships, smoking their pipes. Bilbo co...
Bilbo is having trouble leaving the Ring in the Shire as he packs to leave.
Frodo enters Bilbo's and finds the Ring on the floor. He hands it to Gandalf ...
Gandalf slams Sam on a table, having pulled him in from where he was hiding o...
Frodo quotes one of Bilbo's sayings for Sam, who is reluctant to go any furth...
As Gandalf turns to leave Saruman slams all the doors to his chamber shut. Ga...
Sam loses sight of Frodo and starts calling him frantically. When Frodo doubl...
Frodo's spirit drops when at the Prancing Pony in Bree, Gandalf is not there ...
Saruman sits in his tower, his hand over the Seeing Stone. The Eye of Sauron ...
As a result of the Wraiths seeing the fire, Frodo has been stabbed by a Morgu...
Arwen calls the river to rise up and wash the Ringwraiths down the Ford. Frod...
Galadriel tells of the passing of over 25 centuries during which time the Rin...
Elrond and the council agree to all who have stepped forward to see the Ring ...
Frodo hears the ring whispering ominously while the Council argues. He stands...
Elrond and Gandalf discuss the future of the ring, it's history and it's pres...
Frodo jumps onto Gandalf's wagon and the two chat as they ride deeper into th...
Gandalf knocks on Bilbo's door. Bilbo hollers back from within.
Galadriel speaks of Sauron's Ring, devised to give him power over all life.
The steps through the mines crumble around them. The Bulrog is upon them. Gan...
The Fellowship is surrounded by thousands of orcs in the mines of Moria, it s...
During their battle with the orcs and cave troll in Moria Sam clobbers orcs w...
Gandalf reads fro a journal left by the Dwarfs. It tells not only the history...
As the Fellowship waits for Gandalf to figure out the way through Moria, Gand...
Gandalf has spent hours speaking password after password to no avail. He sits...
Saruman from his tower chants and starts an avalanche on the mountain that th...
Before Gandalf parts ways with Frodo and Sam he has one last instruction. He ...
Frodo has been stabbed by the blade of a Wraith. On their way to Rivindell th...
Bilbo packs his things in preparation to leave the Shire.
Bilbo drops the Ring on the floor, walks through the door of his home, then s...
Hearing a noise outside the window Gandalf lunges with his staff, reaches out...
Gandalf has parted ways with the Hobbits. As Sam and Frodo make their way acr...
Saruman tells Gandalf what he's seen in the Seeing Stones as he takes his seat.
Saruman takes Gandalf's staff from him. He spins him around on the floor in c...
The four Hobbits attempt to escape from farmer Maggot, fall over a small clif...
The foursome barley make it to the ferry and cast off. The Ring Wraith rains ...
On seeing the Eye of Sauron, Frodo removes the Ring. As sson as he is visible...
Aragorn leads the Hobbits into the Wild. When they stop, he chides them. When...
Frodo wakes from his nap. He rushes over to the fire and stomps it out.
Arwen crosses the river and draws her sword. She speaks to the Wraiths on the...
Aragorn shouts Boromir's name, snaping him out of the trance induced by the R...
Merry and Pippen, also listening in on the council, come from there places to...
Boromir, who feels his people should wield the Ring, speaks to the council.
Gandalf, atop Saruman's tower refuses to join him. He jumps off the tower ont...
Gandalf arrives in the Shire to be met by a stern-faced Frodo. They give each...
Gandalf shoots fireworks from the back of his wagon for a few of the children...
The first story of the trilogy begins with Galadriel telling of the Ring that...
Gimli's pride cause him to jump across a gap in the steps. He jump is short. ...
Having weathered the first orc attack in the mines, Gandalf looks back. Many ...
The orcs are breaking down the door to the room where the Fellowship holdsup,...
Gimli introduces the Fellowship to an amazing feet of architecture. The Dwarf...
Pippen rock throwing has woken a monster in the lake. It's attack on them col...
The Fellowship arrives at the wall of Moria. Gandalf uncovers the doorway and...
Gandalf tells Elrond in Rivindell that their future and the hopes of Middle ...
Bilbo gives Frodo a few items to aide him in his journey to Mordor. As they p...
As Sam, Pippen and Merry scramble for mushrooms bt the road side, Frodo sense...
Bilbo slipped the Ring on his finger as he stood before his party guests and ...
Bilbo agrees with Gandalf to leave the Ring. He grabs his pack and his walkin...
Gandalf smiles down at Frodo, who has hastily packed to play his role in keep...
Gandalf looks at Saruman with grave concern on his face. Saruman looks blankl...
Gandalf refuses Saruman's offer. Saruman extends his staff sending Gandalf fl...
Farmer Maggot can be heard coming through the corn field. Merry and Pippen sp...
Sam spots the Wraith not far off from them. While they hide in the brush, Mer...
In the Prancing Pony, Frodo slips. His fall causes the Ring to slip on his fi...
Aragorn convinces the Hobbits to hide. They listen to the Wraiths screech in ...
Sam wakes to find Merry, Pippen and Sam cooking over a fire. He puts it out w...
Arwen mounts her horse with Frodo in the saddle in front of her. She rides to...
Isildur failed to destroy the Ring, corrupted by its great power.
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