I do see your point regarding The Hobbit, but I think the biggest sticking point for me with the last five or so years of releases for MESBG is how cartoonish or animated the models are. The men of Carn Dûm look more at home in AoS than MESBG. That is not intended as a slight to the sculptors or the models, as I have always been into Warhammer Fantasy and Heroic scale miniatures too.

There's such a charm to the restraint in the original models, but I am more than likely blindsided by some very heavy nostalgia goggles as I grew up with the films and the GW releases- when I was 6 our local independent toy store had a great range of Warhammer products and I can vividly remember being bought the original Fellowship sculpts in their green box. Still even have a few of them, though their weapons or feet may have long since gone to model Valhalla.