The first season was fake too. They never made a LOTR TV show.

I love you.

Remember when we were stoked for the Amazon show? Good times. What a bunch of dumbshits.

Not me. I knew exactly what it was going to be. If only you would listen to me.

Hard pass. You're an idiot who hates basically everything!

Except John McAfee or whatever.

After looking into it more it was doomed from the start. They don't have enough of the the rights to do it correctly. They only have pieces to work with. What they should have done was set the narrative in the Southern and Eastern parts of Middle Earth showing the resistance and wars following the Blue Wizards (assuming they could use the Blue Wizards) that Tolkien hinted at. Without their efforts the West would have been outnumbered by the force's of Sauron (at least one version says that's what happened). They could have done whatever they wanted and made it super diverse in a way that made perfect sense and no one would have said boo.