[HCIsland]

Certainly the current level of the craze will die down (would anyone want to continue to see Gandalf bobble-heads for sale?) and it will settle to a level that will be somewhat higher than where it was before.<P>Everyone gets introduced to Tolkien in different ways. Mine was through role playing games in the earlier 80's which is certainly, I think, a rather unusual way. Some read the books in high school. Some were turned towards it by family or friends. Some even became live-long fans after watching the Bakshi film.<P>These movies just become one more way through which people will be steered towards Tolkien. Most people that see the movies will never read the books and some that read the books won't become fans, but there will always be life-long Tolkien fans whose first introduction was through Jackson's films.<P>H.C.