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Bad writing, no sense of scale or scope. Feels like there's only 12 people in a scene when it's meant to represent a battle or an army. And most importantly...this does not feel Tolkein. It feels like another modern checklist of things companies think people want to see VS telling a good story and being faithful to the vision of the author and source material it originated from. Galadriel is one of the most dislikeable protagonist's seen on the screen (even though she is a bada$$ in the books!). Sauron flip flops with his motivations between being pure evil (which is what he is in the books and films) and then wanting to make the audience sympathize with him as he constantly talks about Galadriel and how he would make her his queen. The Orc's have the same problem. Show Orc wife and baby, yet we are happy to see our protagonist's slaughter them in the next episode, don't think about it too much. The Halfoots and the Stranger storyline goes nowhere and the same with Isildur's story. The Numenorian's feel like an easy led angry mob that swings from "we love to queen" to "we hate the queen" and do not feel like their book counterparts where these men feels larger then life (literally Aragon's people). And don't get me started on the Balrog who we see for two minutes in 2 seasons, who wakes up way to early and then ROARS and goes back to sleep). All in all it's just a bad adaptation on something that should be truly amazing. Peter Jackson's LOTR films understood the story and morals from the books should be shown in the films and that the films should be in honour of Tolkien. This TV show does the opposite of that.