@TheGreatLlama

a FEW liberties! that's euphemistic. he actually made the movies more racist than the text, that was almost impressive! I think it's more accurate to say that he made an action movie where the characters happened to have the same names (but not the same personalities) as the original LOTR characters.

it would be a stupid use of my limited time on Earth, perhaps, but I have considered devoting long-term energy to (rhetorically) kicking Peter Jackson in the face over and over for daring to screw with Tolkien, and almost certainly with nefarious commercial reasons in mind. Plainly he was scheming to get himself made into a movie mogul, an elite-class producer, and he got what he wanted...and basically everything he produces is trash. I'd love to know what demon he cut a deal with, to be given such enormous latitude to trivialize The Lord of the Rings.