I can't wait to see it. I've read everything JRR ever wrote, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Histories of Middle Earth I'm not purist...The first I heard of the Hobbit was a cartoon and the Disney Channel I plan to re-read the the books in time for the movie. I only hope doing so doesn't deepen any disapointment

My must have are: -- MicroEdge SlickEdit (for the most part better Intellisense than Visual Studio for more languages, multi-platform too) -- Cygwin (Unix-like toolkit for Windows *freeware*)