From what I understand, they have the rights to the Appendix of LotR, and while that's not remotely a complete story, there's a lot of events described there, a

From what I understand, they have the rights to the Appendix of LotR, and while that's not remotely a complete story, there's a lot of events described there, and they're getting all of them wrong. If they didn't have the rights at all, maybe they shouldn't have pretended it was Tolkien and not used his names. I would have loved an original big fantasy show, but I think it's pretty clear that would never have gotten this kind of budget. They're entirely trading on Tolkien's name and not fulfilling that promise.