Popularity of LOTR... How sad...

[Lhundulinwen]

It's inevitable. Perhaps the children of former pop-culture-loving psudo-nerds will find the barely-skimmed books in thier attics. And then, a whole new generation of Tolkien-loving scholars will be born.

A whole new generation of Tolkien readers coming from the movies originally! Isn't that a good thing? Even if their parents miss the point at least for now, maybe they'll pick the books back up. A new generation will find them laying around the house, and fall in love with them all over again. Then they'll go and do a quick internet search, and voila! a whole new crop of Barrowdowners! And in a lot of college classes, and some high school classes even, Tolkien is a required read, and many people fall in love with the books there, and then they have families, and they share the books with their children. So, really, this total immaturity from movie-goers will pass, and bring over a lot of LOTR nuts.