: : I wish we could go back to discussing the minute points of Tolkien's works. By the time RotK airs almost everyone here will have rither moved far, far away to avoid publicity and "pop-culturization" of LotR or commited suicide rather than see what Jackson has done with the story; and that's me assuming that Xenite.Org will still be in existance by that time.

: : Also, no one seems to bring up the other Inklings any more. Why not?

: They are disappearing into the Vacuosity of the modern world, they are no longer understood or loved by the heartless, money grabbing selfish commercialists that populate this planet.
: Any point you wish to discuss, bring it on! Lets talk about what Valinor is like, or how many Elves lived through the Fourth Age, or why Samwise was so interested in ropes......

This whole thread is over the same curiosity I had (finally found the time to read it)... Why worry so much about the final product, when there is still so much left of the source? Shall we begin some threads about that forgotten source?