They're two totally different things. I love the books and I love the movies.

Here's the thing. There's parts of the book that are so amazing and glorious and beautiful and never made it onto the screen. But then the movies took elements of the book and made them come alive. Like the music. The music is so god damn perfect, I can't even. And the movies are beautiful, more beautiful than I could have ever imagined in my head.

There's obviously parts of the movies that weren't great. Some parts that were cringeworthy. And other parts that I didn't really feel was in the spirit of Tolkien's work. But they're still great movies. I probably wouldn't love the movies as much as I love them if I didn't love the books as much as I do. My love of one kinda passes onto my love of the other because I do think the films, for the most part, did a great job of keeping the spirit of the books.

I don't feel the same about The Hobbit. I don't think it kept the heart or the spirit of the books at all.