I read the books growing up (and a couple times since), the movies did a great job of transferring it to the big screen. It was always thought to be an unfilmable story, but Peter Jackson did pretty well.
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Yup…it’s such an epic story….my expectations for the translation into a movie were low but he did an incredible job…I thought the two towers would be especially difficult due to the slow pacing and detail but he pulled it off….he (Peter Jackson) was obviously a huge fan of the story and adored Tolkien