If you haven’t been in on The Ring movie hype (and this is J.R.R., not Wagner), you can catch up with this Boston Globe article. The first movie is due to open a year from now. “At least 400 fan sites are exclusively devoted to the production.” Whew, thatsa lotta HTML. Middle Earth is a world that lives in millions of individual imaginations, with each visualization completely different. A movie phenomenon like Star Wars existed solely in the head of one guy who then brought it to life on screen for us to stick into our imaginations, pretty much intact. But living up to the expectations of what all the readers have built into pictures in their heads from the written word of Tolkien is a monumental challenge.