Huh, now that i backread my comment did come off as very "lore purist" which im not, i consider the original trilogy some of the best film adaptations to date, i have never played the shadow games but i have heard that they are very good so i don't hate them either. As you said, a lot of lotr adaptations are really shitty in the sticking-to-the-lore department, but i think what makes it different from ROP is that they at least seem to care, or just to want to make something good because they love the source.I dunno man, stuff like Shadow of Mordor/War, War For The Ring, or the Third Age lmao are absolute, 100% pants-on-head retarded, lore rape of the highest order, but people (including me) still like those games because they're fun games. There's nothing redeemable about RoP, it's generally just badly written, acted and even badly shot, which you can notice even if you don't give a shit about Tolkien's work. I just can't figure out what there is to like.
ROP is a soul-less cash grab in the same vein as wheel of time and the witcher show, some suits in a boardroom wanted more money so they just purchased a beloved property so they could milk it for all its worth and they have tried to insert themselves into the canon of one of the greatest fictional worlds of all time like some sort of parasite.