Jackson's lousy films are terrible adaptations. Empty, soulless, dumb and worst of all, revisionist. They reminded me of all those "updated, hip" moronic TV series like "Hercules" or "The New Adventures of Robin Hood". Idiotic changes like throwing Glorfindel out and replacing him with Politically Cretinous Expanded "Warrior Maiden" (TM). Plus, the stupid films made a whole generation of dumb teenyboppers claim they "love LotR". I'm still a bit ashamed to admit I first read and loved the whole LotR, Hobbit and Silmarillion cycle when I was 6, ashamed because I don't want to be taken for one of that whole "ringnut" crowd of idiots who never even heard of the books before those three idiotic movies.