When the movies are over, Will the craze for Tolkien still be around?

[Catlyn21]

As one of those new-found fans: I only saw The Fellowship of the Ring when my two best friends sat me down on a sofa and forced me to admit that it was the best movie I had ever seen (Me: Whose that? What are they doing? Why are those people so short? Oooh..That guys hot! Aragorn who? AHH! POINTY EARS! Wheres Mount Doom? etc. etc.) I then read all the books, and started on Tolkien's other work. I think, from first hand experience, that the movies will simply draw more people in: I'm totally obsessed now (Why else would I be on this message board?), did a biography project on Tolkien, dressed up for RotK (haha, so much fun) and cried at both the end of the book and the movie simply because they were over.<P>Okay, enough blabbering... Let's just say that Lord of the Rings will be around for a very long time, if I have anything to do about it...