Coming from a Tolkien free zone.

I went in to Peter

Jackson’s movie-the first of a trilogy-with no preconceptions. I

came out, three hours later, sorry I’d have to wait a year to see

what happens next in Frodo Baggins’s battle against the Dark

Lord, Sauron, and thinking a trip to the bookstore to pick up

“The Two Towers” might be in order… *The Movie Works*. It has real passion, real emotion,

real terror, and a tactile sense of evil that is missing in that other

current movie dealing with wizards, wonders and wickedness.

Jackson’s fierce, headlong movie takes high-flying risks: it

wears its earnestness, and its heart, on its muddy,

blood-streaked sleeve.

Only 2 1/2 weeks left!