I saw the trailer to the first movie in the LotR trilogy and it looked very good. The scenery was very nice and it looked authentic (if you can call fictional settings authentic). The elves looked pretty much like elves too. Frodo is played by Elijah Wood (who is not in real life a short, hobbit-like person). I didn't even realize it was him on the poster. He played Huck Finn in one of the recent movies and he's been in other movies that I can't think of. Overall I'd say that it will be a good movie, but I'm definitely going to have to re-read them before I see it. I just bought them on barnesandnoble.com.