Am I the only one who thinks that this announcement dropped a week early?
but March 25 is Tolkien Reading Day whereas April first… oh I see.
Like The War of the Rohirrim?
Yep, though I haven’t seen it yet, it got mixed reviews IIRC
I’m really anxious about Tom Bombadil. It’s hard to write a god who is also silly. But he’s both of those. And unknown. And unknowable. They could do so much worse than dwarf-tossing.
I think you all, Colbert and even Sir Peter Jackson are all missing the big opportunity. Bilbo skedaddled from the Shire not because of some Ring thing, but to be rid of his grasping relatives. A Succession / Dallas / Dynasty-style miniseries exploring the interconnections and bad blood between the hobbits of Bilbo’s generation, and their fast-living children (Merry, Pippin, Frodo and working class bit-of-rough badboy Samwise) would be prime-time TV gold. Its probably all there in the book if you just skip over the words that aren’t relevant.
I know (I hope) you are joking but 
Completely joking until someone runs with the idea and it looks like making money, at which point I will unleash lawyers who make the Nazgul look like hobbit children who’ve eaten too much cake.