LOTR Fan me too..

I agree well on what Mike said, the people here are still mostly learning maya (like me) so some of us are just still kinda new but doing something like a more general idea for a challenge, be it LOTR or whatever, would be a good way to help us learn Maya better because we can use what we already know and not dive deep into advanced things like blendshapes just for the challenge because I feel some people (like me) need time on our own exploring that topic or any other advanced topic because trying to do a challenge on it..but yeah