Does canon matter to you? Like, at all.
If so, spare your blood pressure.
If you don't care, it's very pretty, worth a few hours and orders of magnitude better than Wheel of Time.
I don’t understand this take
One can read the appendices to their heart’s delight - this show does not change anything Tolkien wrote or revised or revised again and then Christopher reinserted a previous revision
What it does is offer (so far) 3 gorgeous episodes of a sprawling epic that is adapted to 8 episodes
Not sure why someone would bunge themselves up to the point where they can enjoy a retelling of an all time great mythology