He sure did. Compare this film to a piece of tripe like "Titanic" (which was a technical tour de force, but a dreadful piece of melodrama in terms of the apparently obligatory modern love story). Compare it to Star Wars...darn good, but LOTR is better. Compare it to the Matrix trilogy...Ah...Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

No one will ever make LOTR in a way that pleases everybody. It's doubtful that anyone will ever do it better than Peter Jackson has in these 3 movies.

- LH