The Lord Of The Rings film trilogy is a much more rewarding experience than either Star Wars trilogy in any of their variant manifestations.
This is made easier for Jackson to pull off by virtue of reasonable adaptations of well written pieces of literature (so Jackson had a structure to work with already) and because they were created largely as a single project so they are have a built in tonal and visual continuity to them.
On the flip side Lucas pinched wholesale from just about everywhere not just the narrative components but the visual components too (so he is just mixing ingredients pre-prepared for him by thousands of others) he also had more freedom to explore and squandered it (especially with the PT by telling us what we already knew blandly and contradicting what we already knew and enjoyed).
The OT has ROTJ hanging around it's neck like an albatross and many of the SE alterations serve to annoy much more than any changes in adaptation that Jackson introduced in his three films.
The LOTR trilogy is not the original text so anything altered or edited for the adaptation does not stop people from experiencing the original piece. They are an adaptation and over time there will be more. Ziggy Stardust is probably the only person on here that may live to see the next one but baring a new dark age another dramatisation is inevitable.
The theatrical releases of the OUT (and increasingly the PT with the changes made there) ARE the original text so any alterations made to them remove, over time the original experience.
The chances of even a rubbish remake in even Ziggy's lifetime are slim at best.
These are THE STAR WARS.
Those changes unless we are successful will be there (officially) forever (probably) without the balance of the original text.
When you factor in the more functional use of CGI and the larger share of practical effects in LOTR and the unavoidable observation that Jackson is a better director by far and Hairy Hen's olive branch to thread sanity becomes a fig leaf covering a load of old cock.