I am 26 and the movies still feel fresh. I didn't even get to watch the movies until I was an adult...I only had the books, so the respect the movies had for the books was very special to me.

What pisses me off about Warner Bros is how they are latching onto LotR and Harry Potter because they were glorious 20 years ago, and they want to reclaim that glory without putting any work in to make something worth watching. They would rather milk one man's life's work to death for a cheap buck instead of trying to make something new. And, its probably going to be successful. Harry potter was fun 20 years ago, LotR was fun 20 years ago, but as a society we need to move on to new works instead of latching onto past success. If Warner Bros could realize that, they would be better off for it.