This kind of perspective is integral to what makes a horror movie scary. The other movies occasionally get spooky when we’re back with Sam and Frodo, like when Shelob is hunting them, but Fellowship spends almost every moment in that creepy mode. While we may literally see events that Frodo does not, it’s through his eyes and naïveté that we’re watching it all unfold, instead of hopping around to the journeys of several different characters. Both fantasy and horror require you to believe in monsters for a few hours at a time - and scaring viewers can be the fastest way to make them believe in heroes.įellowship’s divergence in tone comes by virtue of its uniquely limited perspective, mostly focused on Frodo or the hobbits. Unlike The Two Towers or The Return of the King, The Fellowship of the Ring is a horror movie. This is Polygon's Year of the Ring.īut there’s something else that sets it apart from its successors, two action-adventure fantasy epics that span the world of Middle-earth and focus on half a dozen different characters. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics.
2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story.
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