I agree with what jipay said, people will want to watch the film to see how it links in with the OT. Hopefully Lucas will have worked on this so it will be good.
ImperialJohn: I too think that LOTR is a great film and does well in all areas, but I also think that SW is a different type of film, as its storylling varies from LOTRs. So I like them both and I think that in both films there are good (or bad) things.
Jon.