“Jackson made chop suey outta LOTR. Good films, missing half the book though with 50% made up filler.”
It is impossible to fit 3 huge novels into 3 movies. The only format that can fit everything from the books into it is a 3 season mini series with 10 hour long episodes. Peter Jackson did a damn fine job with LOTR.
I agree with you except for one point: for me, a large part of the last section of "Return of the King" dealt with the effect of the War of the Ring on the Shire and how Pippin and Merry, influenced by the part in the War, raised and scoured the Shire. That, to me, was a key portion of the LOTR, to show that such infiltration and desolation could occur anywhere unless challenged. I think that Jackson missed the boat on that one. Some other scenes could have been scaled back just enough to allow "The Scouring of the Shire".