personally I find the movies to be good on their own merits but relatively weak adaptations of Tolkein's actual work. There's a lot of the story, the characters and the world that is either dropped, simplified or changed to streamline the movie plot or alternately to add pointless melodrama and inter-character conflict. Frankly I think the movies are more 'generic fantasy' than the books, which can still be kinda weird.

Of course you may well not like them at that's ok.

One of the better efforts I've seen on this sub. I'd eat this, for sure. Good work.

Perhaps read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson as a gauge. It's about some of the same subjects, and in a similar style, but only one single book and a bit tighter plot wise than the baroque cycle. If you love Cryptonomicon go ahead and read the baroque cycle.