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The problem with comparing any film to the book it was based on, is diffent things work on screen than on the page. I recently re-read LotR for the first time after seeing the films. While reading, I immagined how the book would look as a movie. To film the book without major changes would be long and boring. It is a very long and complicated story. To make it understandable by people who have never read the book and get it down to a reasonable length while still keeping it interesting to people who have read the books was a major task, which is probably why it's taken so long for someone to turn the books into a film.
I would mention that in my opinion many of the changes in the film probably weren't in contradiction to Tolkien's philosphy in writing the book, but I don't want to hijack the thread, so I'll just leave it at that. To keep on topic, I'll just say that the only thing I'd change was add a few more hours to each of the three films to include some of the things that were left out.
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