Roneta Akelaitė

Nothing about this show feels like Middle-Earth I grew to know and love from books and movies. It's more of a generic fantasy show, and very mediocre at that. I can't believe looking at those ridiculous costumes and cheap looking armor that the show cost a billion bucks to make because opening sequence is by far the best thing about it. Dialogues are cringy, the elves look and feel nothing like their nearly celestial boom counterparts, my favorite character is reduced to a cliche girl-boss and a petulant teenager - because it's a younger version of the character, don't you get, who cares she's already a couple of millennia old... CGI swings violently from great at times to absolutely abhorrent at other times, most characters are unlikeable and difficult to connect with, they keep making ridiculous choices to move from one plot point to another... and honestly, creators deserve 0 stars for sheer contempt and disrespect they've showed to Tolkien fans. The show is not the worst thing I have seen, especially since it's quite easy to ignore tolkinian aspect of it, because it's easy to forget it's supposed to be based on Tolkien's work but even as a stand alone thing, it wouldn't exactly be worth watching