My somewhat controversial opinion is that I absolutely despise Rings of power. Now, I know that a lot of people argue that it is bringing more people to Tolkien's works, but is it really? To me, it feels like nostalgia bait for pre-existing fans. I'll admit, I took the bait too. I saw that they had released a show that was about LotR and I got excited, but the more I watched it the more I realized how un-Tolkien it is. And for taking his name, I would expect that they would keep some sort of semblance to the fantasy that he imbued into his world.
Besides being un-Tolkien, it has a great many other flaws as well.
It's terribly unimaginative
It wants to be Game of Thrones SO bad
its predictable
The characters are terribly mis-characterized
Despite trying to be diverse, it almost did the opposite?
It neglects, or even completely retells existing stories for the sake of their own narratives.
It feels like poorly written Fanfiction (no hate to fanfiction, I literally write lotr fics)
it was made by Amazon
Tolkien would have hated Amazon
Amazon why did you do this to me
Please Amazon stop retconning my favorite franchise
Actually, Please, Amazon just stop.
You literally put a billion dollars into this, when you could have stopped global warming
Where tf is Celeborn??
(I'll probably drop more RoP hate posts eventually)