In the book, I was not surprised to discover, the entire scene requires less than 500 words. This is an exciting scene, done with state-of-the-art special effects and sound that shakes the theater. The chapter "The Bridge of Khazad-Dum" provides the basis for perhaps the most sensational action scene in the film, in which Gandalf the wizard stands on an unstable rock bridge over a chasm, and must engage in a deadly swordfight with the monstrous Balrog. Wondering if the trilogy could possibly be as action-packed as this film, I searched my memory for sustained action scenes and finally turned to the books themselves, which I had not read since the 1970s. But a true visualization of Tolkien's Middle-earth it is not. That it transcends this genre-that it is a well-crafted and sometimes stirring adventure-is to its credit. But "Fellowship" is a film that comes after " Gladiator" and "Matrix," and it instinctively ramps up to the genre of the overwrought special-effects action picture. The Hollywood that made " The Wizard of Oz" might have been equal to it. The Ring Trilogy embodies the kind of innocence that belongs to an earlier, gentler time. That is not true of every scene or episode, but by the end "Fellowship" adds up to more of a sword and sorcery epic than a realization of the more naive and guileless vision of J. If the books are about brave little creatures who enlist powerful men and wizards to help them in a dangerous crusade, the movie is about powerful men and wizards who embark on a dangerous crusade, and take along the Hobbits. Such notions about Hobbits can be found in "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," but the Hobbits themselves have been pushed off center stage.
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