*Shrug*

      Only a year or so to go until I get caught up. Ah, c'est la vicera. See also this. And see this too, which this blog wishes to add one mild adjoinder: although there is an extent to which the series is a "Celtic" fantasy, anyone in the know realizes that Tolkien's greater influences were the Icelandic (the 'eddas') and Scandinavian sagas and, of course, Beowulf (Sam and Frodo being photo-negatives of Beowulf and Wiglaf, and Mount Doom itself a geologic Grendel).

      By the way, there are actually a few (no doubt very lonely) nay-sayers to the film here and here. This blog posts these because, goodness knows, you will have no trouble finding the raves.