I decided to go ahead and order the LoTR extended box set, even though I half-hate the movies. I never liked Elijah Wood, and he's a total whiner as Frodo. Maybe that's true to the source material, since I've never read the books, but still, I think it makes it worse that it's him. Sean Bean annoys me a lot, too, and unfortunately he seems to be one of the go-to actors if you're making a fantasy movie or series. That's a mark against Game of Thrones, though of course I'll still watch it. Viggo Mortensen also seemed not badass enough as Aragorn. Peter Jackson has an off-putting ego at times as well, but I'll begrudgingly admit he made some visually memorable movies, if nothing else.
Oh, the reason I went ahead and ordered is I got that $100 credit for buying the 4 GB Xbox 360 w/ Kinect when it was a deal of the day on Amazon.com earlier in the week. So... LoTR, volume 4 of Bloom County, and an OXO pie server. Came out to $101.20, so I paid $1.20.
