I've been listening to the audiobook of The Fellowship of the Rings, got further than I ever have before (the council of Elrond)
I suppose I might feel differently if I'd read the books first then watched the film but as it is I have to say Jackson and co improved on basically every aspect of the story you can think of. More gripping, thrilling, "funny", emotionally moving etc.
Obviously they were working with the world and story Tolkien created so I'm not saying Tolkien is shit (although I think he's quite a shit storyteller and an unremarkable writer)
It's more to say that the films are a bigger achievement than I'd grasped before
Might plough through the rest of the audiobook for completions sake. It does flesh out stuff that the films didn't have time to cover, ofc.