From initial fear this show become quite enjoyable experience. It is not totaly accurate to Tolkiens work (its just not). Show also has distingtive American touc-one all saving all hero is surounded by cannon folder and has to solve everything by himself... Yet despite all of this, I am not afraid to call this show best show in years. Beautiful CGI which is comparable to films, and helps nicely drow a picture of one of most interesting and glorious times of Middleearth. Suprisingly show have nice costumes (accept for armour which are, as always in American fantasy, inpractical, yet it coud have been much worse (looking at you Witcher series). The story telling is good. Sometimes not all story lines suits to my taste yet this is more about my preference and less about quality of those sequences.