I've read people saying otherwise, that the show is nothing like what Tolkien wrote. I forget the setup but apparently the rings should've already been forged, Isildur is over a thousand years early. Someone else called the Harfoots evil because they leave people behind. I don't even remember it all but it sounded like a lot of whining. Oh, someone else said Tolkien is spinning in his grave because of how much they changed. And another saying some people's heads are spinning because they got all kinds of things wrong timeline wise.