Interesting. I HATED the LOTR movies & loved the books. I thought TLTW&TW was very well done.
I loved them both. LOTR was not as closely done to the book as Narnia, but thought they both captured the feel of both series very well. I have to admit I was a bigger Narnia fan growing up than LOTR fan, I never got over Biblo's whining for 100 pages before he ever left his front door to go on the journey, sort of soured the rest of the series for me.