NO
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personally i think there should be a new lotr movie every 2 or 3 years.
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Afraid so 
Now don’t be hasty…
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BOMBADIL: A Lord of the Rings Story
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https://preview.redd.it/vjuntyu54vt51.png?auto=webp&s=15a013256c068c686e0b31d3380fab5ac193ca0b
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Lmao, Bombadil 2: Civil War.
Honestly though, if I had to choose what to make movies or a show of, it’d be Aragorn’s journeys before the Fellowship. Man helped the Rohirrim in ages past ( Eowyn even alludes to it in the extended Two Towers), helped Gondor by raiding Umbar , travelled to Rhûn and Harad even. There’s a ton of potential there.
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Okay, but I’d watch a series entirely based around Tom Bombadil and how much he loves his wife
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I have zero faith in Hollywood’s ability to do Tolkien justice.
The Jackson LOTR trilogy well deserves its classic status, but they’re actionized compared to the book and focus on things that Tolkien himself didn’t care much about, while removing a lot of important non-action dialogue. The Hobbit trilogy are really D&D movies rather than Middle-earth movies. Rings of Power… exists.
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Peter Jackson and Andy Serkies saw the success and awards the gollum video game got and thought it was gollumin’ time.
The hobbit movies wish they were as good as the D&D movie.
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Rings of Power I’ll give you that, that wasn’t great at all ( though I didn’t mind Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, and I did like the way they made Numenor look, with the main building similar to Minas Tirith yet with flowing waterfall, that was nice). And while it’s true that Jackson’s trilogy is actionised , atleast I feel they mostly remained true to the spirit of Tolkien’s work.
Hobbit is very clearly made to be more lighthearted too.
And then they gollummed all over the place. Truly the greatest moment of all time.
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Bringing back LOTR to the movies.
They don’t choose a Finrod Felagund film.
Perhaps I should be grateful.
Perhaps I should be in mourning that I will never see the coolest Elf on screen.
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Glorfindel was in the Peter Jackson movies briefly. So don’t worry.
He is neither the hottest nor coolest Elf. It is Finrod and solely Finrod. Maybe Finarfin.
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I don’t mind that it exists. Visually it’s great. I mind how sloppy the writing is, and how Payne and McKay think they’re the next Tolkien while missing the mark in both the letter and the spirit.
The good:
- Morfydd Clark as Galadriel
- Arondir
- The dwarves
- This Wandering Day
- The visuals. We got our first big budget renditions of Valinor and Numenor and I think they’re gorgeous.
The bad:
- The glacial pacing. How they can have eight episodes and advance the plot so little boggles my mind.
- Gil-Galad’s acting. The actor is clearly bored and is just in it for his paycheck.
- The final song, sung to the Ring-verse in a manner completely inappropriate for Middle-earth.
The ugly:
- The writing. Oh my nonexistent god, the writing. If you’re writing and adapting Tolkien fanfiction, then at least hire someone who can write good Tolkien fanfiction.
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The good:
Elrond’s powerful chin.
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This is what happens when you only get the rights to the appendix of an unrelated book(They only got the rights to the appendix of Return of the King. No other works) and then also lack any creative thinking to fill in the blanks.
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This is the key flaw of RoP, I think: creative ineptude on the writers’ part. As a result, the good parts aren’t original and the original parts aren’t good.
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No!
After the game, you’d think they’d leave Gollum alone.
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Gonna put this in spoilers just in case.
Rings of Power Spoilers
Initially I was very interested in where they were taking the morgul blade thing. But the payoff it being a “key” that activates Mount Doom to explode & erupt was beyond stupid.
As was the Balrog waking up over 4000 years early.
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Your latter point offended me most.
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