Amazon just bought the TV rights to "Lord of the Rings"

[COKTOE]

Nuvendil said:

COKTOE said:

Ha. Well put. As somebody who burnt out on the movie series with the original trilogy, I can't wait to be aware that this show exists while I rearrange my sock drawer.

The original trilogy was at least mostly faithful in spirit, teleporting elf armies and invincible undead army plotholes not withstanding.  Though they did pound some characters flat enough to fit under a door (*cough*Denethor*cough*).  But the Hobbit though was a travesty, especially the last film with it's ludicrous action set pieces that would make Michael Bay blush, shameless "let's sell toys!" creatures, plotholes galore, even more time devoted to the most forgettable love triangle in film history, nonsensical battle flow, horrific CGI, and slow motion abuse approaching early 2000s levels, all of which contrived to make a 2 hour and 24 minute film feel like a 3 hour and 30 minute slog.  

I spent all of 10 minutes watching The Hobbit, and was blindsided by the inferior special effects as they compared to their almost decade-old predecessors. As to the rest, I'll take your word for it. :)