Apparently Amazon Prime Video UK uploaded this cringeworty video with random people acting as 'LOTR superfans' and asked them to comment on the teaser trailer. It's so awful that they were 'forced' to unlist the video a couple hours later
Watch at your own risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APQuy_mB1dw
I'm afraid my expectations with ROP are now even more close to zero... Indeed, the world of difference in these quotes say it all:
“It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like.”
“Can we come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series that could only happen now?”
- Lindsey Weber & Patrick McKay, Executive Producer & Showrunner of Amazon's ROP Series, Vanity Fair (Feb. 2022)
"There are certainly themes Tolkien felt were important. We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyse what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves."
- Peter Jackson, Interview with GreenCine (Dec. 2002)