Tolkien probably saw Yellow Submarine before making his decision.
I hate Jackson for “The Hobbit”. I love that book. I was thrilled to hear it would be made into a movie and even moreso a trilogy. I felt they could really flesh out all of the nuance in the book.
The movies are atrocious. A complete bastardization of the book. Half video games, half... crap I don’t even know what. Unwatchable. Just a complete puke fest.
I highly doubt the veracity of this. Maybe someone joked about it during an acid filled evening.
Thank goodness Tolkien turned them down. They would’ve made the story into something pscyhedelic.
the Beatles would have screwed it up.