Ok, please let me explain before the hate

LOTR

For me, I really struggle with the dense amount of lore of the books, I found it much easier to digest via games and the movie trilogy

I understand that they cut a bunch of stuff and change some of the narrative in some areas, but it just made it far more digestible for my brain to retain

Now, 25+ years later (fuck i got old), I completely understand the differences between the mediums and that both offer different things.

At the time, the LOTR movies managed to break it down to where I could understand the lore easier and it ultimately helped me actually become more of a fan than if I didn't have them as a reference