Amazon Lays Off 'Several Hundred' Staffers at Prime Video and MGM

I'm a Tolkien purist, read all the works. I even had a beef with the Peter Jackson movies though I think he came from a place of love and the movies themselves were a pkeasure.

I wanted to hate Rings, and in fact partially do for its significant digression from canon, but at some point I decidsd to accept it for what it was - a money play with some teasing points - and not waste time feeling bad about it.

They paid a lot for the rights.

The Ring of Power can improve in the 2nd and later seasons (It had good bits but obviously could have been better) and the can also make other middle-earth based shows.

Same. Canceled prime, now buying much less stuff and if I need to buy something I wait until I have $35+ worth of stuff I want to buy to get free shipping. This really makes you think twice “do I really need to buy this?”.

Not really. All it is saying is "We found a better way to spend our money". Also, no matter what Amazon says, people are going to attack them because they are laying off (firing) people. No one likes layoffs.