[Rune Son of Bjarne]

An interesting thought. . .

I think that the movies can be a permanent thing, but much depends on wich status they get at the TV networks and so on. For the time beeing they will be rememberd and shown repidedly on the telly, but I think that for them to be rememberd and loved by the general public they need to be recognised as brilliant movies telling a brilliant storry! You know kind of a Star Wars status, less can do it, but unless they get high status they will be forgotten. It is very simple, they are very long and you cannot really watch one and let that be that. You need to see all three of them. And lets face it no one want's to take up 9 hours of primetime TV with a film no body really cares about.

Of course there is a chance that it will be a cult movie, but I don't see that happening. They are simply not good enough or strange/suprising/different enough (like Rocky Horror Picture Show).

it is sure that they will be rememberd by "Tolkien Freaks", but never will they out-shine the books.

So what I am really saying is that I don't know! It depends. . .