YESSSSS!!!!
Ohhh don't get me started on LOTR - i was still a kid (early primary school i guess) when i saw that famous cartoon (and loved it). Years later, i read the books and loved them - one of my all time favorite readings.
Since then, i re-read it twice and enjoyed it still. Plus i read Hobbit twice too, and i'm very interested into the rest of Tolkien's books.
Then, some more years later, i heard the news about the movie being made after the book which i thought was amazing and i was really excited to see how this legendary and famous tale would be translated onto the screen. And it was a great movie!
For my taste, Balrog was way scarier in the cartoon, and i thought the banging of the drums in the Moria mines would be more dramatic. (more slow, like i imagined it in the book) and i thought Boromir's death was better "done" in the book.
Though i must say the effects are
particulary great done was Frodo's visions when he wears the ring , monsters and Black riders are scary and Gandalf is great!
In the books my favorite characters are Gandalf and Frodo, in the cartoon it was Aragorn, and in the movie it was Legolas (he was cute)!
Um my fave is probably the first book, the second part is a bit dragging on and boring with the whole Gollum part, and the third one is very good.