I'm enjoying your commentary. Er, enjoying isn't quite the right word, in the same way that you can't apply 'enjoying' to watching the train wreck. I understand the appeal of returning to the source material, and one of the things I'm interested in is other's takes on what they read and feel. Hearing what the NPR people obviously must have thought and felt about LOTR is kind of fascinating, because I'm now so used to seeing it through the eyes of people who essentially see and feel the same thing that I do (more or less). And mocking is fun too.