In all seriousness, I was holding out hope, but it turned out to be just a fools hope. After the trailer, I did some more reading and looked at all the information Amazon had made available, and the interviews from the showrunners, and I’m extremely disappointed. From firing Tom Shippey, one of the most respected Tolkien scholars, and replacing him with a much less qualified person, truncating thousands of years worth of the second age into a handful, and more things I could go on about. It’s just not Tolkien at its core, and I think it’s just an egotistical power move by one of the richest men in the world to make the most expensive show ever, and what better to adapt than some of the most influential stories in all fantasy? I honestly doubt Bezos has read The Lord of the Rings, let alone the appendices.