It was a radical choice. Audiences in 2001 were trained for closure. Instead, they got an ellipsis. The tagline, “One ring to rule them all,” is complete, but the journey is not. Fellowship is not a standalone film; it is the first movement of a six-hour symphony. And by ending not with a bang, but with a promise of more pain to come, it asked its audience to trust the storytellers. They did.
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