TV's Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

But I'm concerned that Jackson's version of Middle-Earth is eclipsing the real version in the eyes of most people.

First world problems.

Jackson and Tolkien are like oil and water. Tolkien was an Oxford professor who spent decades building Middle-Earth, and he put detail into names, languages, places, and history. He has subsequently influenced every single high fantasy novel in the last 60 years. Jackson was just some gore-obsessed exploitation filmmaker who couldn't restrain himself. He based his version of LOTR on fuzzy memories of the Ralph Bakshi cartoon when he was a kid, and hustled his way into filming the live-action versions to satisfy his own ego. And now he can't make a coherent or subdued film if his life depended on it. Did Jackson spend years getting every detail right, perfecting the internal chronology, fine-tuning the characters, keep focus on what the book were really about? Of course not! He was just a greedy bastard who bashes the system for the very thing he is guilty of. The Hobbit/Lord Of the Rings means nothing to him except as an intellectual property he can milk to build his second mansion. He's pissed that he can't milk that cow anymore now that Christopher Tolkien (who helped write LOTR and the Silmarillion) stepped in and kept his father's work in safe hands from the next Peter Jackson wannabe.