Ah, I know how ye feel, Morai. All too well...
My dad comes in to watch FotR with me, ends up saying something about it being demonic-looking, and falls asleep, spilling his coffee all over the couch... he wakes up, finding the coffee everywhere, yells, jumps out of his seat, screams at the TV that if my mum and I weren't watching something so stupid, so boring, it never would have happened...
My mum said she wanted to read it, but I know she'll never be a die-hard fan, and she still thinks LotR is stupid, but says she wouldn't mind reading it... *blink* Although I've successfully got it in her head that baths and Aragorn do NOT go well together.
