#20th anniversary
When the first installment of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released on December 19, 2001, I was eight years old. At the time, I was far too busy with Harry Potter to care. In fact, even for years after that, my only memories of it were an uneasy feeling whenever Gollum appeared on screen and a hazy image of trees marching into battle in one of the games my brother had on his PlayStation 2. This…
