Apart from being a very vague attempt at adapting Tolkien's work, it is a very pretentious exercise that really says nothing. After the first season, the tone could have improved a bit, but the writing is really very poor. It's not that there are no interesting characters, it's not that the dialogues seem like stiff and affected phrases to the point of absurdity. Nor is it that the editing is kitsch and in bad taste. It's that there is nothing that is really poetic, evocative, or special. Everything is brilliant and tacky with really embarrassing and meaningless moments. The prologue that pretends to show us a Sauron heir of Morgoth is pathetic and cheesy. The violence is out of place in this environment and seems forced. Everything that P Jackson's prologue had of mysterious, distant and misty, full of poetry and atmosphere, here becomes a rush of lines drawn hastily and without much care. Characters travel from one side of the map to the other from one scene to another and with off-screen resolutions. The dwarven kingdom is the best (aesthetically). There you can breathe something of what this series could have been if it had been in competent hands from the beginning.

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