Ubik
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Agree, partly why for me Fellowship is the best one, by RotK you really begin to feel the chops and changes.Yet Jackson invented several scenes and changed characters to allow these scenes happening. He could have also reduced the length of battles as well. For me is was unforgivable to omit the death of Saruman in the RotK theatrical cut for example.
I love the films, but they certainly aren't 'perfection' as some LOTR nerds seem to think. Personally, I think Gondor in particular is butchered, it's clear that Jackson loved Rohan and spent far more love and attention on that culture and used Gondor as the whipping boys. They were ultimately pretty soulless, even Faramir's character was altered (I understand this change a little more) but still, it's a change from the books and wasn't Tolkiens vision.
It's an interesting comparison though as the main adaptation problem is kind of inverted - from having to cram all the books into digestible films, to now basically expanding a timeline and a few scraps of text into 50 hours of TV. You'd think that they'd stick to the bare bones that had been laid out and embellish around them, but they've made it (for me) a bit harder on themselves by making so many changes. While it's silly to get too hung up about what is essentially expensive fan fiction, at the same time it's hard not to be disappointed when the potential was there.