if you haven not read tolkien masterpiece while prepare yourself for maybe the best movie experience ever . if you have however . after have read the book several time and over many year and i have come to love the character and story and and feel i know it intimately . i have my own personal vision of the shire and hobbiton and the character gallery . thus for me the movie be a disappointment . why . it dictate the appearance of the character ( unavoidably ) and it change event and it remove important storyline and it remove not so important storyline . great chunk of what make the lord of the ring what it be and be simply ignore . even 2001 special effect can not do tolkien ( and your own ) imagination justice . peter jackson have make an honest attempt at the impossible and and i do not think anyone else could have do it well . but the fact remain and i regret see the movie . the next time i read the lord of the ring and peter jackson limited vision will leap forward and not my own .