Yabutnobutyabutnobut see I didn't even have the ring or nothin!

I didn't make it through the first episode of the Amazon Lord of the Rings series.

I like Tolkien, I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and enjoyed them. I'd even say that Tolkien was a great writer, and his influence on modern literature is awe inspiring. I even liked the LOTR movies, they were fine. I never saw the Hobbit movies because there definitely was not three movies worth of content in that charming little kids' book, but whatever.

Anyway... "The Rings of Power." I couldn't do it. It was the fucking accents and the ridiculous dialogue. It's like a bunch of Renaissance Festival performers were making up a brand new Shakespeare play in their treehouse while drunk. "Forsooth! Let's all partake of top hats and crumpets! I have made a cushion of foie gras to rest my weary mind upon! Let us ponder the platitudes of darkness until the darkness can see no more!"

Maybe it gets better, maybe I'll never know.

And why do they all have "posh" accents like they're from the Westminster Butthole Academy? I want to see the Lord of the Ring series where everyone sounds like Vicky Pollard.

Lots of people that I like and respect are really into this series. Maybe it's just not meeting me at the right time.