Worse than expected, which shouldn't have been possible. Every single aspect of the show is just wrong. The timeline has been "compressed" meaning that literal thousands of years are now crammed into roughly a single human lifetime. Characters have been relocated in the world and the timeline, and others have been "adapted" into entirely new characters. Entire arcs have been discarded and others wholly invented.
Simply put, this is not Galadriel, this is not the Second Age, and this is not Tolkien's Middle-Earth. It may as well not be called Lord of the Rings. Worse still, even if you remove every reference to Middle-Earth, you'd still have a fantasy show more incompetent and less coherent than the 8th season of Game of Thrones. The costumes are terrible when compared with contemporary shows like House of the Dragon, and the CGI pales in comparison to Peter Jackson's LOTR films 20 years later. In fact every single aspect of this series is a step backward compared to 20 years ago.
Simply put, this is not Galadriel, this is not the Second Age, and this is not Tolkien's Middle-Earth. It may as well not be called Lord of the Rings. Worse still, even if you remove every reference to Middle-Earth, you'd still have a fantasy show more incompetent and less coherent than the 8th season of Game of Thrones. The costumes are terrible when compared with contemporary shows like House of the Dragon, and the CGI pales in comparison to Peter Jackson's LOTR films 20 years later. In fact every single aspect of this series is a step backward compared to 20 years ago.
