If any of you enjoyed the Lord of the Rings films, and/or read Tolkien, theOneRing.net is JUST like this website, I am coming to find. Sorry, I did a big huge long post in the "list of stuff" thread (one of the 'Edge" threads) under As the Boys Play Rock and Roll.
I've been a U2 fan for 23 yrs (and I'n only 35) and had nver hoped to find another fan cimmunity experience like the u2 one, until Jackson's films came out. And yes, I'm a Star Wars fan too. But the LOTr phenom is something else. We Ringers now follow the filming of King Kong slavishly and obsess over every little daily detail of life we can find on Peter Jackson, Fran, Philippa, Grant Major, Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Sean, Viggo, Elijah, Billy, Dom, Liv, Ian, Andy, and now Naomi, Jack, etc..they are First Names to us and the list will grow. They're all like family, the same way the Boys here are family for us. This intesity of fan experience took me completely by surprise, it was totally unexpected. But such a sprtit of love has grown up around that place that I can only comapre it to this one.
Nomatterhow much I wil make this mt new home, I can never completely leave TORN, as we Ringers call it. No matter what goes on here.