The show is a gigantic missed opportunity and demonstrates that throwing money at things does not always work.
If you think that the entire LOTR trilogy costed 300M and created such stunning visual effects that hold on to testament of time, it is hard to understand where all that billion dollar went to. Certainly not to story writers, or to finding good actors.
Even from a non Tolkien fan point of view, the story in confusion's boring, scenes are unnecessary bloody and crude, dialogue is basics, with some sporadic sentences that sounds like wise, but if you actually listen to them, they are actually empty, like the reason why a boat floats....
Without respect, we reject.