One series to bring them all and in the darkness bind them~

Middle Earth is going to be made a series and everybody is loosing it.

Am I really the only one who is actually a wee bit excited? 

Yes, I share the belief that no adaption will ever beat the books - and yes; maybe the Amazon adaption won't be as grand but what if it is? 

And most importantly, what if indeed it isn't - what is the worst that can possibly happen? 

Just because something *could* be bad, is not a reason for me to hate it for that very reason from the start.

I love Tolkien's books and you know what else I love? Talking about it to other people, hearing their interpretation of things Middle Earth and drowning myself in merchandise (thehehehehe) - and this new series will probably enable all of the above.

After all, what is a movie but an interpretation of a group of people - I am excited to see how they visualize it. 

I don't see this as a threat, more as a new chance to have the LotR hype be reborn and let younger generations see how absolutely epic and fantastic Tolkien's work is - and you can bet that this will have more people read his books - look at what happened with Game of Thrones - suddenly everybody had read it.
Also more Elves, armour and Elves. Enough said.

And if it is awful, then so be it - I can always pretend once more that "there has never been a tv adaption" like I did with the Hobbit. Seriously, there has never been one *winks* 

The only person I do feel bad for is the poor soul who is going to see it with me - either way, I think I will be quite the nightmare, switching from "OH THIS IS GRAAAAND LOOK AT-" to "THIS IS A DISGRACE *looses self in details* !! "  within seconds.
I'm pre-sorry already.