Are the Critics qualified?

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2002)

I've read many of the negative comments on this site about LoTR, and they are almost all from people who have blatantly not read the book. To those people, keep quiet. Now, I appreciate that you shouldn't always have to read a book to watch the film version, but this is an exception. Also, I really find it amusing that some of these people think its a dungeons and dragons rip off, which is funny as it was written decades before D&D, and in fact almost all fantasy of the same sort of genre is based on it. sorry if I've offended anyone, though if I did, hooray, I must be doing something right.