I sit egen podcast fortæller fantasy-forfatteren Brandon Sanderson, at han mener, at Peter Jacksons arbejde med at adaptere Ringenes Herre resulterede i den bedste filmtrilogi nogensinde. Sanderson siger følgende:
"It was made knowing it would be a trilogy. Lord of the Rings is cheating because it has the source material, but they could have ruined that source material and they didn't".
Forfatteren arbejder selv på at transformere nogle af sine kommende værker til både film og tv-serier. Han er desuden, ikke overraskende, en stor fan og ekspert i Tolkiens univers. Han roser Jackson for at have formået at forvandle bøgerne til de fantastiske film, de endte som:
"I just reread the books. And there are a ton of places where Peter Jackson added a bunch that is great.The Interaction between Sam and Frodo where Sam leaves is better. It is stronger narratively. Helms Deep is way stronger. I know this is blasphemy, but Tolkien wrote the books in an era where he didn't have what we have now - which is almost 75 years more of how to build arcs and how to deal with them".
Der er altså ingen tvivl om, at både bøgerne og filmene har gjort et stort indtryk på en af vor tids måske mest populære fantasy-forfattere.