re: LOTR appreciation

I start sobbing every single time when Gandalf and the eagles grab Sam and Frodo from Mount Doom. The combination of the music and the post-dialogue of Sam preparing himself to die is heartbreaking. Seconded only to Frodo and Bilbo leaving the Gray Havens for Aman.

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still not sure what the hell Peter Jackson was thinking and how he was able to get LOTR soo right and The Hobbit soo wrong

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The Unexpected Party, the Trolls, Riddles in the Dark, Mirkwood Spiders, Bilbo meeting Smaug, Smaug's death, and Thorin's death were all done pretty much perfectly. He focused on those scenes when writing and directing and threw in the other scenes in one draft and half assed it because he didn't have the time nor the appropriate amount of material to make it good. There are some fantastic fan edits out there that do the original films justice

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The Lord of the Rings is a large, 3 volume (actually, 6 "book" if you look into it) series. He had to delete whole storylines, and de-emphasize others in order to pare it down enough for the final movie trilogy we saw, even the extended editions.

The Hobbit is a relatively short single book. The parts you listed

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The Unexpected Party, the Trolls, Riddles in the Dark, Mirkwood Spiders, Bilbo meeting Smaug, Smaug's death, and Thorin's death

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, along with meeting Beorn, the Eagles rescue, and the barrel scene, that's basically the ENTIRITY of the story.
If it's not listed above, it wasn't in the book.

So: the Orc subplot (NOT the Misty Mountain goblins), the Dol Guldur/Sauron subplot, 99% of Dale, 99% of the Elves subplot, anything with the White Council, stuff with Smaug not listed above (the keystone cops chase scenes),
ALL that is filler, that wasn't ever in the books.