Good, but not as good as I imagined the story

Rating: 7/10 (16 August 2015)

Amazing cinematography, score, make-up, costumes, special effects, acting, etc. but my imagination is a thousand times better.
I would have preferred never to have seen these movies because they do not live up to my imagination.
When you see movies like this, often with characters not in the books, or scenes shifted around, it takes away from the childhood memories of my reading this books for the first time.
I remember finding The Hobbit on the shelf of my sisters room and borrowing it, reading it every day until I finished then reading it several times again.
These movies, while a fantastic effort, do not match my ability to create the entire world in my own mind.
However, I'll still rate them all the same, for the LotR and The Hobbit.
The books were better.