[Thenamir]

For the record, I consider myself a Tolkien-head and a fanboy after a fashion. And yes, I think Tolkien readers are a cut-above, so to speak. But Peter Jackson is the only one who dared to make the pitch and get the job done. <P>Making a movie is no cakewalk, and unless you are independently wealthy (on the scale of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates) you are not going to have the money to make the kind of movie that is going to include every jot and tittle of Tolkiana. And if you did so, it would have no appeal to those who had not already read the books. It would be a commercial flop.<P>Think of how many people are reading Tolkien for the first time becuase of these movies! It is probably the single biggest piece of publicity for the books that has ever come down. People are INTERESTED now, people that might NEVER have picked up Tolkien on their own. In that sense especially, there is much good in the movies, of for no other reason than it has given people an interest in the SOURCE.<P>Thenamir of Rohan<P>P.S. Don't get me started on the subject of "corporate greed". It's that "greed" that got the movies made to begin with. It's that "greed" that enables most of what we have today in terms of movie making technology (and most other advances) to exist. And one more thing -- the term "corporation" means the company is owned not by a single greedy corporate tyrant, but by shareholders like you and me. It is income and retirement for *common folks*. Point that finger of greed at yourself if you own, have owned, or ever will own a share of stock.