[Folwren]

It is a tough question. I see people here mostly like the FotR and the RotK the best.

My consideration is this:

In theater, I was most wowed by the RotK. It was a fantastic movie to watch in theaters. It was beautiful, sad, awesome, and down right amazing in some places.

But now, after a couple years of not seeing it in theater, and watching the movies at home, my favorite has settled to be the FotR.

It is the truest to the books. The characters are closest to the characters that I know when I read the books. Though they changed some stuff in that first movie (Tom Bombadil and Glorfindel) and added some unlikely parts, too (Legate mentioned the stairs in Moria), it was still well done, and I think it's got the most 'book spirit' in it of all three.

All of them were well done. But the FotR is the most Lord-of-the-Rings-as-Tolkien wrote-it like, to me.

-- Folwren