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To spell it out: Jackson was (metaphorically) held hostage by fans of the novel who demanded absolute fidelity to the source material. In doing so, he made errors that, in my opinion, caused the films to be less than what they could have been.
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Were they getting death threats during production? Was Jackson telepathicly linked with all the fans of Tolkien? His wife, a friend, and himself wrote the scripts. They happen to be fans themselves. They knew what to cut and what to augment. The first movie they hit right on the head. The second movie, I thought they cut too much out or sent to the third film. The third movie was very well done. Overall, it's the best substitue to reading the novels, -bar none.