Well the dwarven story made no sense to lore, but I found it the best one of the whole season. Sauron's story was almost something, but turned out to just be nothing. I am being vague since the episode just came out. Overall if you were looking for a lord of the rings show, this isn't it. If you just need some fantasy show to watch, this still isn't it. But it did have some nice shots of the locations.
If it continues I'll watch for the little bit of glimpses at the world that I can de associate from the show. Like when they showed the Trees, or Tirion on Tuna. But mostly just to see dwarves. Khazad-dum was good visually. Shouting "Khazad", and the people reply "Dum" was a nice addition. Numenor looked good when they showed wide shots of the city. The shots of the cities I liked.
The harfoots can be cut. The wizard with Tom is just beyond a dumb "forced" addition. I never want to hear "we went back to the book" from these creators. This show wanted to be everything but Tolkien's book. The story in the show is just a lot of nonsense even if you never read Tolkien.
The funniest thing is how they would try to use a quote but it was the wrong context.