The News Gazette reports that Professor Tom Shippey, regarded by many people as the world’s leading Tolkien scholar after Christopher Tolkien himself, likes Peter Jackson’s ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’.
Shippey served as a consultant on the movie. (You can see his name in the credits, “but only at the very end, after the carpenters,” he joked.)
He has seen a private screening in advance and likes it, although he said a lot of Tolkien’s story is left out to abridge the more than 1,000 pages for the movies.
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