I have yet to see the second one, but like you, DC, I want all the DVDs.
I first read the boxed set (”The Hobbit,” to “Return of the King”) when the entire set was still underground. I found it at an office supply store. I think I must have read it all within five or six days, but I read it every year since then for the next 40 years.
Now that the movies are out, I find me reading the books about once every two years, but between the books and the movies, I have an excellent grasp on Middle Earth. And I ask me: Why isn’t there REALLY such a place?
Plugging along with the byos on “The Two Towers.” We’ve run into Faramir (sigh) and may get a short chapter in before bedtime tonight.