Yellowlablover: it sounds like you have a great reading teacher. lucky you. That's a field trip I would have loved to have taken. My family all loved LOTR. When my nephews were younger we used to read it together. Even though they are all grown now, we went to the first, and the second movie all together, on opening day. We loved both, and were very pleased with the adaptation. And yes, while *some* scholars believe he'd be disappointed, others think he would be proud. I would bet his family would think so.