Has it really been 10 years today since the filming for LOTR began? I know that back then I wouldn't have been the slightest bit interested...but now...oh how I wish I could go back and *know* what I was in for, and enjoy the build up! Artanis

I was also not aware/interested much back then as I am now,
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so I have the same feelings about this as you have. But if you like to read how the build-up of news was back then, you could click on this link, and read all that was going on back then from the bottom up:

... but given that I was only 11 at the time I'm afraid to say I knew nothing of Tolkien! I remember my mum telling my dad they're "doing a movie of LotR" but that's it! It's good to be able to look back through the archives to see what I missed out on! Luckily I won't make the same mistake this time ~*Haudh-en-Ndengin the Elves named it, the Hill of Slain, and Haugh-en-Nirnaeth, the Hill of tears... the earth beneath which the swords of the Eldar and the Edain crumbled into rust*~

(This is, of course, a reference to some reviews of RotK which began with the sentence: "Peter Jackson owes me a box of tissues." )

Thank you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"I desired dragons with a profound desire"

"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?" -Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915

I was 15 when they started Filming on the LotR trilogy, and had been a Tolkien fan for a couple years by then. I was so thrilled when I heard the news that they were making new liveaction films, and cannot belive that its already been that long. Wow, Fellowship has been out for 8 years this Christmas and I still think its absolutely amazing! "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf - Fellowship of the Ring