Started me off right. My dad read the Hobbit to me and my sister before bed in the early 1970's, then I moved on LOTR, Dune, etc. Probably did more than anything else to build my reading/vocab. There simply are not too many writers of the English language any better than Tolkien.
Well it is the Baylor version of Brokeback. RPG3 is in the tent instead of Heath Ledger and he is wearing those socks Sic Em always talks about.
Go ahead and sit through your own apocalypse. Dude, you got a thing against hobbits, wizards and some pretty cool story telling? J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy fiction draws very heavily on our European-based myths and roots with just the right emphasis on morals, in my opinion. And, Peter Jackson is pretty good in re-telling these tales as they should be.
I'm going to clean up with the chicks while all of you geeks, nerds, and fanboys are out at your Gandalf convention.
I'm interested in seeing this, but I wish it had come first. It's a little tough building a real sense of dread and danger when you know the real thing is still coming, and you've already seen it.
