Things that would not have happened if not for the movies

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

I don't know -- I agree that the success of the LotR movies kind of opened the floodgates, but it feels like as the Star Wars/videogame/D&D generation came of age, it was inevitable that fantasy would break through to mainstream success.

I tend to agree, although I will also add the fact that it was a movie trilogy created prolonged exposure that helped cement fantasy as a genre.

[Mornorngûr]

If it weren't for the movies, people would actually accept Sauron as being incarnate with an actual body, rather than foolishly believing how Jackson depicted him.

Also there wouldn't be thousands of threads and posts all over the internet with people arguing about it.