Lord of the Rings movies coming, targeting 2026 release date

This seems like a bad idea.

It's a strange choice, especially after that flopping video game about Gollum last year.

I'm not really lining up for spinoff prequels about any of the characters, but I resent your tone. Gollum rules.

How many bloody spin-offs can we get from Lord 0f The Flies. 
A chunky bunch were rescued from the island,  albeit a bit politically skued.
Let it lie.
Forget this, Hollywood.....what we need....or I need primarily is more shark movies .
With or without frickin' laser beams and/or hot crumpet....I'm easy.

Funny. How many years people said that they would NEVER make any more LOTR stuff past the trilogy we got in the early 2000's. They said the same thing for years about Mary Poppins after the Disney movie back in the 60's.

Copyrights, ownership, and gate keeping of a label won't stop Hollywood from getting their mitts on an intellectual property and rebooting it over and over again.

Makes me wonder how the licenses to Tolkien's works are divided at the moment. J.R.R. Tolkien was well-known for wanting to keep his works mostly locked up and and Christopher Tolkien continued that tradition, though he did finally agree to the Netflix series, allegedly under immense pressure from many other members of the Tolkien estate.

Interestingly, there was nothing in the Hollywood Reporter article about the Tolkien estate being involved with these. Did they even have any say, or can the Warners make new films on their own just because they hold the rights to the LotR & Hobbit trilogies? I wonder.

Anyway, I do not at all like the concept of making individual movies for LotR characters. Tolkien intentionally wrote "types", not characters (characters as "psychological complexes", as in most modern literature). This lack of needless psychologization is a major "invisible" part of his work; it gives his books a kind of universal appeal and in part their mythological feeling.  "Background story" films can only take away from mythological/philosophical/religious themes so dear to Tolkien's heart, since characters defined this way will come to be more psychologized and thus will no longer present something more universal as Tolkien intended.

LotR should never become a franchise, since franchises always work by adding more and then even more and going more into details; it's the exact opposite of Tolkien's essentialism.