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DVD. Run time: 178 mins. Language: English. New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien s best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins a Hobbit resident of the medieval Middle-earth who discovers that a ring bequeathed to him by beloved relative and benefactor Bilbo (Ian Holm) is in fact the One Ring a device that will allow its master to manipulate dark powers and enslave the world. Frodo is charged by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to return the ring to Mount Doom the evil site where it was forged millennia ago and the only place where it can be destroyed. Accompanying Frodo is a fellowship of eight others: his Hobbit friends Sam (Sean Astin) Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd); plus Gandalf; the human warriors Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and Boromir (Sean Bean); Elf archer Legolas (Orlando Bloom); and Dwarf soldier Gimli