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100% agree. The LOTR movies are quite good but Tolkein's writing is just from some other kind of world. I feel like some visionary studio could have started making a basically unlimited number of seasons of unhurried adaptations of the source material in serial format, maybe with rotating actors like James Bond / Dr. Who / etc to help reduce any kind of logistical pressure to make it happen at any pace but an easy and natural one. Most of the individual chapters could easily serve for a decent fraction of a season all on their own. Like Game of Thrones but with source material already all finished, with reams of ancillary supporting and bonus material, and at a substantial upgrade from even George RR Martin's already fantastic writing.
Amazon's film people choosing to write pure dogshit, when they had the option to do that and plenty of money to make it good, is testament to how shockingly stupid are the people in charge over there.