This show, with its budget has limitless potential. It's well presented at face value, but to anyone who knows a single aspect of Tolkien lore knows full well the absolutely atrocious lack of understanding to the original material this show has to offer us. After the beginning of season two no aspect of Tolkiens work has been left unruined and the story is in my mind now completely beyond repair. What a terrible shame. I'm sure Tolkien, Peter Jackson and all of us who have actually read three or more pages of one of Tolkiens books are very disappointed.