Agreed; I’ve always suspected that had Tolkien written all of ‘the New Shadow’ the Mouth of Sauron would have (or at least should have) shown up as the real antagonist.
Ohhhh it’s gonna flop. One look at the casting choices they made is enough proof for that. Dumb idiots don’t get that Tolkien was writing a European, Christian based fantasy not some globalist claptrap.