[Child of the 7th Age]

Yes, this hype will come and go, just as happened in the sixties. I saw that happen. But the books themselves will be around forever, to be rediscovered again by a later generation. The films will certainly leave impressions about the edges of JRRT's writings, but nothing more than that. <P>To be truthful, I am quite curious what will happen to the Downs about nine months after the release of RotK. No, I certainly believe it will be here in all its glory. I do prophecy that things will be bit quieter, especially within the RPG forums. It will never go back totally to the small, close knit group before all us folk flooded in through the gates. But I wouldn't be surprised to see a half-way point, a bit of the old and a bit of the new peacefully co-existing.