> i think the release of the films marks a rather critical point in how the books were viewed. Two years before the films (same source) in a 1999 poll of Amazo

> i think the release of the films marks a rather critical point in how the books were viewed. Two years before the films (same source) in a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, The Lord of the Rings was judged to be their favourite "book of the millennium".