Agreed. And I haven't even READ The Silmarillion.

Most people who know me fairly well know that the LotR movies are my all time favorite movies. I do understand why there's some anger over the changes made, but I think overall it kept the integrity of its source.

Now, I haven't seen any of The Hobbit movies, but they look smurfing awful, and I've really only heard bad things about them. Plus it's like 99% CGI, where as the original movies used a lot of non-CGI effects.