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WoT was utter garbage. LOTR was meh to good depending on who you talked to. They are definitely not on the same level.
Yeah, I enjoyed my watch of LOTR: ROP. I'm a big Tolkien fan too. I read the trilogy and hobbit once a year and the silmarillion once every three or four (it's dense af). ROP wasn't an accurate adaptation, but it's a fun fan fic that I felt was respectful to original material. Plus it has some awesome visuals and great sound track. There's definitely things to criticize about it. It's far from a perfect show, but it's not bad. I'll probably do another watch through when the next season gets closer to being released.
WOT though, it hurt my heart...
I'm sorry, but you need to go back and carefully read the books again because they fucked up way too much in this show for it to even be called a "fun fan fic". It is just a bad fan fic. There's countless random moments in this show that don't get explained, characters that are written with modern lenses, Sauron exhibiting incel behavior, scale feeling tiny compared to the source material despite having a billion dollar budget, characters literally singing about no one getting left behind and then doing just that. There's a lot to criticize about this show and it never gets better. Sure, the special effects are nice, but that in no way makes up for the lack of substance.
Everything you described is very common in fan fics and why I called it as such. I don't disagree with your points (most of them), but I do disagree with the severity of the condemnation for those points. I thought it was fine, not stellar, not terrible, it was fine and enjoyable for what it was. A high budget fan fic made by people who respected the lore but wanted to do their own take. Which is what Rankin/Bass and Jackson both did as well. Those are fun too. A huge amount of book fans were livid with Jackson for the changes he made in his adaptation too when the films released. If you think ROP is inaccurate then definitely don't go back and watch the Rankin/Bass cartoons, you might blow a gasket.
Let people enjoy things.
I'm in the LOTR was good camp. I liked how it took its time. It felt vast and expansive but still coherent. And it was beautiful to look at. I hope the subsequent seasons can keep the quality up despite the changes to production.
When they actually get around to filming due to the strike lol