LOTR Movie=ignorant fans?

[Churl]

Fair enough … and I only appended that to avoid making another too-short post.  If that’s what it sounded like I was saying (and rereading my own words, I guess that it does), then I apologize.

My attitude was, as the Stones sang, “Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!”  (I.e., I was thrilled by the film and began to get frustrated by the negativity I was reading — mostly elsewhere.)

Now that I’m thinking more rationally, I welcome any discussions that remain intelligent and civil.  (…And I’m certain that they will here; otherwise we’ll “learn the praise of a fair debate under the loving strokes of an admin’s axe,” to paraphrase Gimli. )