The films are good, but I think a little overrated. They are better than a lot of films, but given the choice between the Godfather 1 and 2 or TLOTR's 1 and 2, the Godfather wins every time. Some of the battle scenes bore me because I am not a fan of heavy CGI usage and it all gets a little earnest for me and some of the characters around those battles don't hold my interest. I think a lot of the scenes with Gollum are very good. Frodo gets annoying after the first film, which is understandable, but Sam is the real trooper who gets the hard work done. I wasn't too keen on that treebeard chap either nor a lot of the hair do's in the film. They all looked a bit daft. There should have been more Gandalf with scenes showing him walking around the countryside looking pensive.