I despise them because they are not The Hobbit.

Even with the rewritten riddles in the dark is not truly a prequel to the lord of the rings

The unfinished wholesale rewriting of the book to completely fit lotr was so out of tone with the original Tolkien never finished it thankfully.

Then again its Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy and Jackson's lord of the rings.

They are a separate universe from Tolkien so i don't get all tied up in fighting the battle of the books vs the movies.

Huge difference between Tolkien Enterprises and the Tolkien estate.

One was owned formerly by the now deceased Saul Zaentz , the other Tolkien's heirs.