I liked Jackson's films at the time, and I still enjoy them for nostalgia reasons (my husband and I watched all three of them during the first pandemic New Year's Eve), but they were very much forced into a kind of standard Hollywood action movie blockbuster form of pacing, and a lot of the weirdness and slowness was lost.

I think if someone had been making a LoTR adaptation now, it would be a TV series rather than a film trilogy, but back then the idea of adapting something so prestigious for TV would have been considered ridiculous.