Nobody seems to remember what he did before LOTR, regardless of his role here, producer, executive whatever
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/
I see about 5 huge pieces of shit right there, and 1/2 of LOTR was CGI anyways, it would have been extremely difficult to mess up LOTR, it was all laid out
I heard they were actually books before the movies too, who knew