[BlueSkyJaunte]

I grew up watching the animated version of The Hobbit and reading the books as soon as I could sound out the words. I dragged my non-native-English-speaking wife to Fellowship and she fell in love with the films and story as well. I caught her spelling our kids' names out in Elvish for a needlepoint project the other day.

Hell, our daughter's middle name is Eowyn.

I'm very much looking forward to this. My only regret is that Ian Holm won't (be able to) star as Bilbo.

I'll echo HardDrive: thank GOD the first trilogy wasn't Made In America. The suck would've been audible on the other side of the planet.