Lord of the Rings in Podcasts

So I have to ask you also, we talked with the Tolkien expert who literally looks like a hobbit living in a hobbit hole about the Lord of the Rings books. You obviously are familiar with the books. You're familiar with the movies. Which do you prefer, the movies or the books?

Absolutely, yeah. And I think part of the issue is that it's a fantasy novel, or it's based on a fantasy novel. And fantasy stories stand or fall based on the world that they create. It's got to be a living, breathing, believable world that's got depth to it. And that's the thing that the Lord of the Rings movies do so well. It really gets you invested in this world.

I mean, the whole series of—so The Hobbit itself is about a 300-page book. The entire series of Lord of the Rings is over 1,000 pages. I mean, it is a very, very long book. And the movie doesn't even cover everything that's in the book, and it's still long, and it moves quickly. I mean, it's one of those movies where you finish Fellowship, and you're surprised that it's over already.