>>213761290 (OP)
No, just because RoPe is absolute dogshit that doesn´t mean the Hobbit movies were good. That plot did not require 3 movies, a romance between an invented character and a dwarf or CGI Legolas doing CGI Legolas stuff. Corporate greed just ruins everything.
>INB4 LOTR had a lot of changes from the book too
STFU, LOTR changes are made out of the necessity of adapting to a more stylized medium. Stuff like Arwen replacing Glorfindel or cutting off Tom Bombadil fall into that category. You have seen the Eagles arguments, there would be no end of threads questioning Glorfindel for not joining the fellowship or asking why introduce an OP character like that and then just not use him.
Similarly the eye of Sauron thing is made for the sake of visually representing Sauron´s oppressive presence as an antagonistic evil force. Tolkien books are very descriptive (some would argue that even excessively) so he had tools to convey abstract ideas and emotions in ways visual mediums like movies can not. The eye is both a simplification as well as a visual representation of those things that can´t be described or would be lost by resorting to extensive exposition.
All in all the changes in LOTR are made with the objective of respecting Tolkien´s vision while the changes in the Hobbit are made by marketing teams that care for statistical data regarding social issues and trends. And don´t even get me started on RoPe which is not even an adaptation of anything to begin with so it´s truly and utterly worthless.
