Agreed. I’m re-reading LoTR now and plan on re-reading The Sillmarillion again as well.
I just began “The Hobbitt” for the gazillionth time.
“The eagles are coming!”
The books are excellent.
I dont think the Master of Middle Earth would have cared though for the films. Great special effects yes but way too much liberty taken by the scriptwriters, way too much added and taken away from the original design.
I laugh at the “cats eye” on the tower of Baradur and the comments on utube are made mostly by the ignorant as all they know is from what they saw in the films.
If the eye on the tower is supposed to “be” Sauron, then that is a great error. Of course Sauron had some physical form as Gollum was familar with the four-fingered Black Hand from his imprisonment in Mordor. Or did Hollywood leave that out of their movie?
The casting, not so good. The hobbits all look like models too pretty. Aragorn - Nothing like the Tall Man described in the book. May I go on? The scene at Galadriels mirror, disgusting really that they would make her appear evil, and change her voice to sound like a Cyclon. Ha!
I really dont have the time to list all the errors, I can say thank goodness they did excise idiotic things like Saruman falling off Orthanc!
I suppose the Hobbit will be just as bad.
Happy Birthday J.R.R Iam glad you never had to see the “film”.
I do hope they will not even attempt the Sillmarillion.