[wyopa]

So you would recommend I take my 11 year old son? He has not read the books -- his older brother has and is, of course, dying to LOTR. I would appreciate your comments because I keep hearing of the violence in the movie.

[the_doc]

This is violence worth seeing, IMO.

The funny thing is, the first book of the trilogy was the least violent of the three, as I recall from my readings 35 years ago.

There is an epic reason for the violence in the trilogy, a reason which an eleven-year-old ought to go ahead and understand. The violence is necessary to support the theme that the bad guys in LOTR are very, very bad guys. And they don't win.

[miniver-cheevey]

The violence didn't bother my 11 yo., there really isn't any blood & guts type scenes & maybe because it is fantasy. What scared him was when Bilbo turned ugly & when the cave troll jumped out. I would suggest you watch it first & then decide if you should take him.