Totally understandable. We all were infatuated with the books in the 80’s and 90’s, so to have someone visually put our imaginations on a big screen like that was orgasmic.

6 of us (siblings) watched The Lord of the Rings together on opening weekend. I’ll never forget us all standing outside after the movie staring at each other, stunned like “o m g what did we just see?!” Then we went out to eat and it was 2 hours of “did you see that part?! Did you see this part!?” I’ll never forget it.