This is a heinous abomination, a desecration of Tolkien's vision, and an insult to his work. Even if one ignores the fact that this show is supposed to be based on Tolkien's Legendarium and judges it as a stand-alone show, it is mediocre at best.

What is this supposed to be? Superficially, it looks like Tolkien's work but for me, that's where the similarities end.

Visually this is an impressive series.There are some genuinely talented actors in the cast, too. That said, Tolkien's work is, in every respect that truly matter's, absent. Really that's because this isn't Tolkien. Its a pretty but ultimately hollow,facsimile. Largely absent is the underlying message about courage,the battle between good and evil and the endless horror of war.

What we have instead, to my mind, is a rudderless, unsurprisingly slow show, that seems intent... read the rest.

I think so far the show is wonderful. visually the is clearly the best look Tv show ever created, from the crisp resolution to the colorful, elaborate and beautiful scenery, and the great HDR colors. Man I love watching this show so far. Story so far. There is a lot of world building. Im not a Tolkien nerd so I'm not sure where this story is going, but I'm enjoying it so far.

Woke and horrible. When the woke crowd steals ideas from those they profess to hate, as they did here, they are in essence admitting that they have no good ideas of their own.

If you loved the final season of Game of Thrones, you'll probably love this trash. It has some impressive environmental scenery, but the story is terrible and the characters are rubbish.

It's a soulless money-grab with Tolkien's name pasted on it to try to give it some legitimacy. At best, it's a forgetable waste of time. At worst, it's a disgusting slap in the face to Tolkien, his fans, and his legacy.

This show is terribly written dreck. Even if this was called something else and didn't reference Lord of the Rings at all it still wouldn't be watchable. This feels like it was written by a group of 5th graders. The CG doesn't look real at all and doesn't match with the live action scenes. The field of view is way to wide and the lack of distance blur which gives the show a cartoonish effect. None of the characters are interesting or engaging and I can't find any reason to care about any of them or the story itself.

Anyone who "honestly" gives this 10 stars must have a childlike mentality.

This is an abomination of Lords of the Rings. Elves are supposed to be white, it was always like that, but Amazon changed it ruined this TV show with its stupid woke agenda. Basically they used Tolkien's masterpiece world for their political purposes. They even went so far that the IMDb which is owned by Amazon and which is supposed to be a neutral (not anymore) website for reviews and ratings is clearly deleting any reviews that have less than 6/10 ratings. They simply delete or won't publish those reviews. They don't even hide how biased & corrupted they became. It's horrible how we, humanity... read the rest.

Unbelievably bad.

This should be ashamed to use the Tolkien name and Lord Of The Rings title to market this pile of crud.

Occasional pretty visuals cannot hide the terrible acting, stilted and cheesy dialogue and the slooooooow plot that has nothing to do with the source material.

Read the books, watch the films but avoid this abomination.

Love it.

No, that's not my opinion on, it's an order. You have to love it. It is mandated by the people in charge.

They changed the race of the Hobbits and then stopped calling them hobbits.

LOVE IT

Please, Love it, before they work camps in the Dakotas, herd us into them and start forcing us to watch the Rings of Power on repeat every night while working us to death in the day for the betterment of an equitable society.

And they made the clear message, which is the only message that you need to know, that all white people are absolute evil because of the color of their skin.... read the rest.