![]() And it'll only take 40 minutes of your time. Being fanmade, you get to see it for free. Go to the film's official website and watch it now. I hope to see everyone involved with this production (and I mean everyone) break out into the film industry in a big way. Nobody can match Peter Jackson, but next to some of the tripe that finds wide release in this country, "The Hunt for Gollum" is magnificent. Not just for being an amateur production, but for being a film in general. Kudos to everyone on this production for doing just that. But the greatest part of a mythology is that others carry it on. ![]() Tolkien always longed to create the great English mythology that his country never got, and with Middle Earth, he did. This may seem like hyperbole, but I'm being serious. And even the acting, which is often the scourge of all amateur productions, works wonderfully. The fight scenes, while not on the level of the trilogy (that would be nigh impossible), are still better than most fight scenes in normal movies. The special effects are convincing, as is even the digital effects work, despite the limited budget. ![]() The costumes are appropriate and elegant. The cinematography is bleak and beautiful, exquisitely capturing the Middle Earth that we have come to know and love. At 38 minutes, this moody piece is short enough for non-fans to commit to, yet long enough to really linger in your memory. "The Hunt for Gollum," made by Lord of the Rings fans for £3000, is a resounding success! It is adapted from material gleaned from the appendices of the world-renowned trilogy, and it covers a short period of time between "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" in which Aragorn searches for Gollum before Sauron's forces can find him.
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