I really didn't have a problem with the Peter Jackson movies, the three-part Hobbit included. Sure, there was no Tom Bombadil, no Barrow Wight, no Gildor, no Glorfindel, an extended time for the Weathertop to Rivendell sequence, a warped story line on Moria whereby Gimli thinks the dwarves are still there and calls it "Moria" with no hint of sarcasm, and that's just issues that come to the top of my head from Fellowship.

The Hobbit was just crazy by comparison, but I didn't mind it because the basic story remained. It's not like Smaug gets into an aerial fight with Ancalagon the Black, ridden by Earendil, halfway through the story, and then they find out one of the dwarves is Morgoth in disguise.

Rings of Power is just terrible in every possible way - the overpoliticization of the show, the glacial pace, the total destruction of anything approaching Tolkien's vision - there's just no defending the indefensible.

I am still watching House of the Dragon but finding it difficult because no one is sympathetic enough to care about.