Christopher Tolkien is not a fan of Peter Jackson
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To be fair, The Hobbit is a stain on him.
Christopher wasn't a fan of the LoTR movies either. He said they were too focused on action and missed elements of the story that were very important to JRR. I don't remember f he specifically mentioned the exclusion of Tom Bombadil, but I always got the impression that that was a big bone of contention for him.
I can't remember much about Tom Bombadil from when I read the books, but the gist of all discussions surrounding his exclusion came down to "he did nothing to progress the story, and the movie was full as is."
if they had gone with 6 films (each book in half part 1 part 2) they could have probably fit everything in
only problem is it would probably take 3 days to watch all the extended editions of the films
films are at a disadvantage when it comes to adapting existing stories because they can only be so long (bring back the intermission i say) and i think that is why in japan in the 90s at least OVAs were so big, you had a story it was too big for a film but probably too small for a TV series (or not enough budget) so they made 3-6 hour long episodes instead