Tolkien himself died long before the films were made, but his son Christopher — who stewarded and continued his father's literary legacy — was openly dissatisfied with Peter Jackson's adaptations. He believed the movies strayed from the core of Tolkien's intricate world, cutting characters, adding drama, and altering storylines in ways that betrayed the source material.
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