[DCBryan1]

He hated the Peter Jackson films.

Never knew this. Why exactly? Leaving out the Barrow downs? NO Tom Bombadil? Just wondering.

[Nateman]

The movies were action based. Christofer wanted something else.

[Nuke From Orbit]

Yes I am curious to this fact. I thought he was part of the producing crew for source material.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Not just one, but multiple reasons. I read he considered the next-to-last chapter of the book (”The Scouring of the Shire”) with the Battle of Bywater (which takes place in the Shire) to be essential — almost, the “moral point” of the whole trilogy -—and was quite irate when it was left out of all of the adaptations.

[Joe 6-pack]

I was disappointed with the Peter Jackson Tolkien films, but thought he did well with Narnia. Douglas Gresham, CS Lewis's step-son went to great lengths to ensure the Lewis estate maintained a lot of involvement with the development and production of the films.

If you've seen, "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe," there is the seen where the Pevensey children have been moved out of London to the Professor's estate in the country. One day, during a rainstorm, they are sitting around bored (leading up the game of hide and seek, where Lucy discovers the wardrobe) and there is a radio playing in the background broadcasting the latest war news. The voice of the newscaster is Doug Gresham :-)