Amazon released a trailer for their Lord of the Rings series. Judging by the comments it has not gone down well.
It's basically what I expected it would be ever since it was announced. I'm not surprised, I don't see how anybody could be, I don't see how the people that are spending the millions of dollars that have gone into this show could not have expected this. It's going to flop and flop badly and it's going to deserve it.
Having said all that, they probably would have got away with it if they had not tried to piggy back of the LOTR brand and had made their own world and IP and filled it with whatever they want, some people would still think it's silly but as it would not be connected to LOTR they would have watched it and not complained that much about it. They shot themselves in the foot here.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v7v1hIkYH24