The show would be better if they stuck to the information Tolkien wrote and not made up their own stuff. Quite literally all they had to do was design sets and write dialog and they decided "let's change everything"

How does the success of a well-loved animated D&D adventure made by a beloved gaming group show that a live action needs to happen? You will not in anyway get the same results with a live action unless it's from a company people trust. No one trusts Hasbro or WotC right now we saw that play out with the movie. Even though it was arguably really good very few people actually ed it.

You want to know why it failed? Because of the direct actions of WotC and Hasbro. Even I, who actually like the movie, was on the fence about watching it because of the things the two companies had done the same year they wanted to release it. So they angered the core demographic of people that would want to watch it and then expected them to just pretend like nothing happened.

You have to pretty clueless to not understand the 2014 handbooks. I began the game from practically no knowledge of any type of ttrpg system aside from one 30min game of 3.5 and the book made perfect sense. Pick a race, pick a class, roll stats and add modifiers, pick background and your done. I've taught multiple people how to build a character and it took maybe 10mins. This is just a quick cash grab. All the stuff people are excited for are what people have already been doing through homebrew why pay $40+ for free content on the internet?