> Amazon didn’t procure the rights to use most of Tolkien’s source material. They are contractually bound to make up nearly everything you see in the show. So

> Amazon didn’t procure the rights to use most of Tolkien’s source material. They are contractually bound to make up nearly everything you see in the show. So Amazon spent $250M on the acquiring rights [1], and yet, that doesn't even cover the meaty parts of the source material? They budgeted a whopping billion dollars, and gave the job of show running to people who had no experience in managing the show of this scale; heck they have no experience at all. Both of them have barely any credits on IMDb [2, 3]. The curse of streaming services is that return on a piece of content is nearly impossible to derive. For a movie, whether it made money or lost money, is pretty obvious. Netflix on other hand sees if you watched something for two minutes and calls it a victory [4]. I won't be surprised if there's a lot of grifting going on in making the production decisions. [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/isn-t-game-thrones-amazon-234243756.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/isn-t-game-thrones-amazon-234... [2]: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4260438/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4260438/ [3]: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4259881/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4259881/ [4]: https://screenrant.com/netflix-2-minutes-veiwership-numbers-why/ https://screenrant.com/netflix-2-minutes-veiwership-numbers-...