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Supposedly posted by The Eurostar:
It was not so bad, after all. Surely a better movie adaptation that the Lord of the Rings.
I dunno. I thought the Fellowship of the Ring was adapted rather nicely, although the passing of time being barely referenced was a bit jarring. In the novel (and in the film, only not shown), Bilbo had his farewell feast and left the Shire a full SEVENTEEN YEARS before Frodo set out on his journey. In the film it looks like it happened just a couple of months later or so.

The adaptation of the film definitely works better if you KNOW the books farely well than if you've never read them at all. My friends and I who've read the books happened to enjoy the film quite a bit more than those who hadn't. Those who hadn't read the books were confused by the ending, which was not really an ending considering the fact that there's still 2/3rds of the story left. They never thought that it would be so open-ended.

Having only quickly read the first Harry Potter book on the same day that I saw the film adaptation for it, it's hard for me to say whether or not they adapted it better than the first Lord of the Rings novel was adapted. In any case, the Lord of the Rings film was far superior to the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone film, in my opinion.