No, I didn't really appreciate it. And yes, I saw every episode hoping to find some good bits. Most of the time, I fell asleep and had to rewatch the episode. Anyway, now it's over. Time to take stock.
The fact that The Rings of Power is a betrayal of Tolkien's vision is obvious, but sadly it's not the worst thing about this series. Starting with the politically correct: Amazon had plenty of opportunity for the inclusion of races other than white people because races, in fact, do exist in Tolkien's legendarium (and the Hobbits are, in part, brown-skinned). But the diversity casting in the series brings the American melting pot to the earth of European medieval origin, which is the base of Tolkien's books (now, this is cultural appropriation, isn't it?).



