Tolkien wrote the greatest fiction I have ever read in my life. I also re-read The Hobbit, LOTR and The Silmarillion every few years. I can write in Elvish. Sometimes it would be hard to figure out what my Tolkien buddy would write back because he wrote with an American accent. I have the second half of the beautiful Silmarillion chapter Of Beren and Luthien memorized. Someday (in my dreams anyway), some girl's going to ask me to tell her a story.
Unsurprisingly, while I've seen them all, the movies really annoy me. Just a constant stream of that didn't happen, this whole scene is made up, the other dude did that, this character didn't even exist etc. The second Hobbit movie was disgusting. Literally not one scene was in the book. Completely made up. To call it The Hobbit, and to give such disrespect to one of the greatest writers of fiction who ever lived, really pissed me off.
That said, a lot of folks love the movies, and that's right for you, I'm just some dude, your mileage will vary. Puff on bros.
PS If you haven't read The Silmarillion, here's what Tolkien wrote when Beren saw Luthien for the first time:
Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.