Popularity of LOTR... How sad...

[Alchisiel]

You know I've been thinking.....instead of bashing the movies I think we should be thankful that someone who is a Tolkien fan made these movies instead of "The Hollywood Machine" if you get my meaning.

I can see it now the part of Aragorn being played by Tom Cruise, Arwen played by Julia Roberts, Galadriel played by Meg Ryan, Tobey Macguire playing Frodo.......scary isn't it?

What I'm trying to get at is that if Hollywood had made the movies the characters that we all love probably would have been played by popular actors, and not the ones that were in the movies. Peter Jackson hired actors based on their acting ability not on if the stars were bankable or not as Hollywood usually does and that my friends is what we should be thankful for.