I know, it's like these studios are looking to make money or something and have board members, investors, & stock holders pushing these studio to turn ever increasingly more profit. It's so weird that these studios looking to make a profit would look to an IP with name recognition that makes them think it might be successful for them. I mean, why wouldn't they spend tons of money on creating something based on an obscure IP with only a fraction of the name recognition of LotR and risk having a huge flop on their hands because of it.