Anyone who knows a lick about filmmaking would know that if the LOTR movies were truly accurate to the source material, they'd be three times longer and significantly more boring. Granted, there are some things Jackson includes/omits that may have been in poor judgement, but I still find his adaptations thoroughly entertaining. I'm sure this will be true of The Hobbit as well.
You could actually attribute a large number of Jackson's decisions on how he shot the original trilogy to Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation from the 80's which - while ill-fated - did a great job of condensing and interpreting the material from the novels in a cinematic way. Jackson emulated Bakshi's version, which is evident in many of the shots, beat-for-beat.
Naturally, the Tolkien estate hates Jackson's adaptations because of his liberty-taking.
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