I actually find your reaction encouraging. The films are here, they are not going away, and I find them an impediment to appreciation of the book - not so much on my own account, where they're merely a nuisance in the way, like a tall person sitting in front of you in the theatre - but in their tendency to infect people's view of the book.

So the more people who testify that they do not find them an impediment, the more relieved I am at seeing a limit on how widespread that problem is. Your phrasing, that the movies "gave me a lot of the feeling that the books give me," is interesting. You're not saying, or at least I hope you're not, that the movies accurately capture the feeling of the book; you're saying that the movies remind you of the feeling that the book gives you, which is quite a different thing, and that is what I find encouraging.