Actually, I rather liked the animated trilogy. Several scenes in particular: Strider telling off the innkeeper, Borimirs redemption, The "temptation" of the elf galadrial, the elve's mourning the passage of gandalf, Gandalf's reaction to the hobbit throwing a stone in the well, Gandalf reading the dwarve's journal, Gandalf and the balrog, Eowyn's revenge on the Nazgul: Away foul dweomir lak! For be you living or dark undead, I stand between you and my kin, and I will smite you if you touch him. ...But no man of woman born am I. Eowyn am I (after which she splits the dragon mount from crown to gut and decapitates the wraith while the hobbit distracts it), Aragorn's challenge to the mouth of Sauron, The seige on the city with the enchanted battering ram, gandalf's standoff with the wring wraith after the gate is breached, The palantir vision of the steward of gondor, when both frodo and sam at various times grab the ring and draw power to fend off the orc in the tower or gollum (it appears to be similar to imbibing a potion of superheroism pluss an aura of fear), I liked the temptation of samwise (his halucinations of power), and getting past the gaurdians to the tower with the gifts of galadriel
I liked the orc marching cadence (possibly because I march to much worse), And I liked the orcs chanting on the wall as Aragorn advanced on the gates.
Gandalfs soliloquy on the walls of minas tirith. " I, gandalf, was without hope. As I stood on the walls of Minas Tirith contemplating my own almost certain destruction...