Popularity of LOTR... How sad...

[Evisse the Blue]

People who know almost nothing about Tolkien's world began to talk as if they were the master in the subject.

I know exactly what you mean, and to me this is maybe the worst part of it all. I for one, don't mind the movies in themselves anymore, although in the beginning I had a purist's attitude to them, and held very aloof, they really grew on me and one cannot deny they are masterpieces of cinematography. But to have a conversation with people who saw the movies a hundred times over and never picked up the book to see where it all came from (well, at least LOTR, if not The Hobbit, and I guess Silm is asking way too much of them) - proves highly frustrating. And such people that I know also happen to have this attitude of expert superiority and 'oh, I know best'. It's so infuriating And not only do they contradict you about stuff like pronunciation, etc, but also in terms of a character's history. For instance, one claim is that Aragorn and Legolas knew each other since...a very long time ago, possibly even since childhood.