{"id":102591,"date":"2016-12-20T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=102591"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:02:19","slug":"fellowship-of-the-ring-15084-reviews-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/12\/20\/102591-fellowship-of-the-ring-15084-reviews-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship of the Ring: 15,084 reviews and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FOTR-Movie-Poster.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-102594 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FOTR-Movie-Poster-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"fotr-movie-poster\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FOTR-Movie-Poster-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FOTR-Movie-Poster.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>On December 18, 2001, TheOneRing.net introduced a new feature on our site: <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.theonering.net\/movie\/reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ringer Reviews<\/a> &#8211; <em>&#8220;A database of reviews from Tolkien fans all over the world, whether you loved, liked or hated the film this is where you can express your feelings in words and celebrate with your fellow fans the release of the first installment in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0Twenty-four hours later, fans had posted 3,000 reviews. By Christmas the count was up to 6,700 and on January 19, 2002, a month after FOTR opened, over 10,000 reviews had been submitted.<\/p>\n<p>Today the count stands at 15,084 reviews. Unfortunately, the individual reviews reside on our old site and have been\u00a0archived. But,\u00a0we thought it might be fun to revisit some of the overall results, more of which can be found at the\u00a0Ringer Reviews link above.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of the 15,000+ reviews, the overall average rating of FOTR came in at 4.7 out of 5. Fans could also rank ten attributes of the movie,\u00a0the results of which\u00a0follow (from highest to lowest), :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.85\u00a0 costume design (Oscar nominee)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cinematography (Oscar winner)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.77\u00a0\u00a0art direction<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.74\u00a0 tie &#8211; special effects &amp; make-up (both Oscar winners)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.71\u00a0 acting (Oscar nominee &#8211; Best Supporting Actor, Ian McKellen)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.67\u00a0 directing<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.48\u00a0 music (score) (Oscar winner)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.42\u00a0 screenplay<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4.32\u00a0 editing (Oscar nominee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of the categories above went on to earn Oscar nominations and\/or Oscar wins (Best Visual Effects, Best Original Music Score, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup), as well as countless other awards (a story for later this week). So, the overall\u00a0ratings by TORn readers were spot on with a general\u00a0consensus about the high quality of the trilogy&#8217;s first installment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/aragorn-boromir.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-102595 no-lazyload \" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/aragorn-boromir-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"aragorn-boromir\" width=\"310\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/aragorn-boromir-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/aragorn-boromir.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a>In addition to the above categories, reviewers could rank the performances of a number of the actors, again on a scale of 0 to 5. Not surprisingly, Ian McKellen&#8217;s performance as Gandalf ranked the highest at 4.91. Viggo Mortansen&#8217;s Aragorn and Sean Bean&#8217;s Boromir all but tied for second place with\u00a0Viggo&#8217;s performance ranked at 4.73 and Sean&#8217;s at 4.71. Rounding out the top 5 were Elijah Wood&#8217;s Frodo (4.68) and Christopher Lee&#8217;s Saruman (4.65).<\/p>\n<p>Other attributes of the film also all scored above 4.0 including Peter Jackson&#8217;s directing (4.72), where and how the movie ended (4.62) and the terror of the Balrog (4.29). However, a few things weren&#8217;t\u00a0quite as popular:\u00a0changes to Arwen&#8217;s character (3.76), no Tom Bombadil (3.74) and the addition of Lurtz (3.71).<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the Ringer Reviews for <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> offered a valuable outlet for fans as well as an interesting glimpse into the overall fan reactions to our first journey into Peter Jackson&#8217;s Middle-earth. Stay tuned for a look at some reviews from TORn staff later this week!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 18, 2001, TheOneRing.net introduced a new feature on our site: Ringer Reviews &#8211; &#8220;A database of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":102594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,100,497,46,197,49,54,10,5,99,102,29,31,30,150,105,74,60,149,61],"tags":[1092,432,431,760,1068,918,748,807,165,1615,761,2014,3050,2620,175],"class_list":["post-102591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lee","category-production-costume","category-production-directors","category-wood","category-fans","category-mckellen","category-tyler","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-production-makeup","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-tornarchive","category-production-other","category-jackson","category-bean","category-lotr","category-mortensen","tag-academy-awards","tag-aragorn","tag-arwen","tag-boromir","tag-christopher-lee","tag-elijah-wood","tag-frodo","tag-gandalf","tag-peter-jackson","tag-saruman","tag-sean-bean","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings-films","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring","tag-viggo-mortensen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FOTR-Movie-Poster.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-qGH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102598,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102591\/revisions\/102598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}