The most obvious composer who has written a famous Symphony #7 is, of course, Beethoven -- that work usually beats out Symphony #5 in classical station listener polls, and I've heard that it beat out #9 in a recent L.A.-area listener poll. It's a pleasant 35 minutes of listening, that's for sure. So who is this mystery composer? (My second guess would be Dvorák, but his Symphony #7 is a much lesser work than the two that followed it.)

A rant on the Jackson LotR films? I know they did not follow exactly the books, but certainly they were admirable for the "look and feel" they provided of Middle Earth, no?

Finally, congratulations on 10 years together with wild_patience. May the next decade be even finer.