Let's see,
I've read the trilogy 3 times.
I've been following the production of the movie for almost 10 months now.
I've watched both trailers about 50 times each.
Saying I'm looking forward to these movies is a gross understatement!!
<< dunno...got pretty psyched when Dungeons and Dragons came out...then i saw the movie. I'll wait till some reviews come in for this one. >>
WTF? I am offended! How can you put LOTR in the same category as this garbage. They spent 18 months filming it, and now 12 months of post-production for each of the 3 films. Dungeons and Dragons was probably done in a few months and they had no intent to keeping it true to D&D...please, I could even tell that from the trailers.
The director of LOTR is a huge fan himself and everything in the movie is directly from the book. There are some new parts he's adding, such as expanding on the Aragorn/Arwen story, but even then...he takes it all from the Appendices!
I really think they will NOT f*ck up these films. Too much work, and almost $300 million dollars has been put into them. I've read stuff written by people who worked on the set and it all looks good to me. Not only that, but they did an amazing job on the casting.