LOTR languished in obscurity for a couple of decades before going classic. That’s like a doomsday device set to zeitgeist trigger conditions or something. What other exemplars of non-viral attention capture success? Any scale from tweets to MCU.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1086817638053961728 …
I think Dune is perhaps better suited for TV, kinda like Foundation. It's too big and sprawling. LOTR is one tight adventure.