How have you seen it?

[Mister Underhill]

Ah, Google, how I love thee. Bb, if you're really interested in learning more, I found these links: complete contact information for Barker, including e-mail address and contact numbers, can be found at the site of the council that funded his research, here. They also have a page with a description of the research grant award, which has a heading for "Award Output and Documents", but nothing to download; perhaps Barker's findings haven't exactly been published yet.

Apparently one of the main findings was that viewers consciously attempted to imagine or make themselves think they were watching the movies for the first time, trying to forget the known ending.

Off the top of my head, I'd say this is how I rewatch most movies that I like. Come to think of it, it's probably how I reread favorite books as well. Some books I'll return to just to savor favorite passages, just as there are favorite scenes in movies that stick in the imagination and can be watched and rewatched out of context.

LotR (the book) is rather unique in that I go back to it for information or analysis as often or even more often -- since I became a member at the BD -- as I do to experience it as a story.