When the movies are over, Will the craze for Tolkien still be around?

[elsye]

The second time I went to see ROTK, in the back of the theatre I looked around. I thought to myself that many of these people are using their imaginations, and that the trilogy is changing lives(maybe not in big ways- but it still is). <BR>Perhaps by the time they've finished watching ROTK they'll be hardcore fans making costumes and buying every bit of memorabilia they see.<BR>I almost began crying. I'm sure many of those people that day are now seeing the magic of LOTR that we've all seen. and just like Star Wars they'll be, for years to come, celebrating Frodo and Bilbo's birthday, and wishing they could find a friend with a heart like Sam's.