My earnest hope for the new films is that Jackson will remain truer to the source material.
It seems you were projecting some of your emotions onto me; I am only interested in discussing the facts—which can be summed up in the statement that Jackson took great liberties with the films.
Liberal directors twist popular conservative stories because they know that if they wrote down their scripts as books, no one would buy them.
But, if they manage to get the rights to a conservative book, they repackage their desires and force the conservative story to fit their demands (and where it will not accede to the demands of their story, they remove and rewrite the offending passages) and then “sell” the director’s story to the movie audience, packaged as the original conservative masterpiece.
I submit that the movies would have been far more successful had Jackson decided to tell Tolkien’s story the way Tolkien told it (with the understandable omissions, etc that are part of necessary conversion from book to movie).
No, I think you’re an obsessive purist. More successful if they slavishly followed Tolkien? Nope. The movies easily grossed over a billion dollars. The simple fact is the vast majority of LOTR book fans went to and enjoyed the films. And those fans were a tiny minority compared to the many millions who watched the films - and loved them - even though they had never read a single page of Tolkien.