His version is a good example of when that phrase is true. I only just recently started the books, and the entire opening is a great example of it. There's dialogue that gets moved around, chronology that gets changed a bit and scenes added and subtracted but every one of them is aiming to communicate what took Tolkein 3 pages to exposit abstractly.
Now when people say "it has to be changed a little" they mean "we combined these two characters and deleted three plot lines so the whole no longer makes sense because hiring 2 actors is too expensive" (see Harry potter) or they mean some modern audiences bullshit
Imo, Jackson did an amazing job. Was it perfectly true to the books? No.
But that's always going to be true, for a lot of reasons.
His version is a good example of when that phrase is true. I only just recently started the books, and the entire opening is a great example of it. There's dialogue that gets moved around, chronology that gets changed a bit and scenes added and subtracted but every one of them is aiming to communicate what took Tolkein 3 pages to exposit abstractly.
Now when people say "it has to be changed a little" they mean "we combined these two characters and deleted three plot lines so the whole no longer makes sense because hiring 2 actors is too expensive" (see Harry potter) or they mean some modern audiences bullshit