I went to the movies, I quite enjoyed the movies, I bought the Extended Editions and really only watched the new bits .. I "lent" the Extended Editions to my God Daughter (lent in this context usually means kissed good bye to ....)..don't really miss them... but I am on my second copy of the book
since the films came out.
I though the look of the films were great but I have that stored in my head, they don't have the hold over me that that the books or even the Radio Series has - I listen to the radio series systematically frequently where I tend to dip into the book. I don't know whether it is because I heard it first at an impressionable age (about 12) or because I am very voice sensitive and not so visually orientated (bad at faces can almost always place a voice), or because I prefer to provide my own pictures , or simply an age related thing that being a child raised before videos that story telling was the entertainment I was used to. All I know is that it is a perrenial source of enjoyment and comfort and the tapes don't get let out of my possession to anyone
. Maybe others feel the same way about the films