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Read the Hobbit, then read the LOTR.
But to play along, watch the LOTR only. Read the Hobbit afterwards if she must.
No one should watch the Hobbit films.
So very much this. There was perhaps about half of a good movie in that entire Hobbit trilogy. Once they started having a looney tunes style gag sequence in the barrels going over the waterfall I knew that was it, the hobbit movies were a lost cause.