Loved LOTR and felt it was not long enough even with the extended edition as it missed out chunks of the books (the old radio series is more comprehensive at 13 hours and still misses bits)
However I got through the first of The Hobbit and haven’t bothered with the rest. I loved the book as a kid and more so the BBC/Spectrum/etc game (KILL THORIN 😀 ), but the films drag it out way too much and add tonnes of tedious battle stuff not in the book.
I’ll watch it all eventually, but not fussed.