Early in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in Peter Jacksons monumental Lord of the Rings trilogy, the wizard Gandalf finds himself alone in a room with the trinket that could end the world. It lies gleaming on the floor, and Gandalf regards it with an attitude of fascinated fear. The audience feels a chill that neither Jacksons vertiginous camera angles nor Ian McKellens arching eyebrows can fully explain. [More]