[Guinevere]

As I have already written in this thread (in July 02), I had read the books shortly before the first movie came out, and shortly after that, I found the Barrowdowns.
Well, obviously, I am still around here! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
In the mean time I have read more Tolkien (U.T. and all Tolkien's letters, and LotR and the Silmarillion several times over)and, also thanks to the many insightful threads here in the Downs, I think I have come to a deeper understanding. (As a side-effect I have become such an adept as to be able to partake in Quotable quotes, which is a lot of fun.)
As to the movies: While I really was enchanted by the first one, there was a lot that disappointed me in the 2nd and 3rd one.

But I think that just these differences between books and movies stimulated a lot of very interesting discussions here in the forum! Even if some of them got a bit heated... I really enjoyed reading all those brilliant arguments! (Especially because I myself am not so articulate.)
And just like Sharon and Helen said, it often was just the uneasyness about the movie-characters that made me study the book-characters more closely.

I believe just because there are always new members joining that there is never a lack of interesting threads here (even if they are about the same topic as old ones )