Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in 2001.
The film premiered in London on 10 December 2001 and entered wide theatrical release later that month. It was the first installment in Jackson’s trilogy adapted from J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
The production was filmed as one large project in New Zealand, with the later films following in consecutive years. The Two Towers arrived in 2002, while The Return of the King followed in 2003.
The year can be confused with the date of Tolkien’s novel or with the release years of the trilogy’s sequels. The Fellowship of the Ring introduced audiences to Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, and the wider fictional world of Middle-earth.