Most people seem to agree that Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy remains one of the most enjoyable and impressive adaptations of all time. It was a massive media franchise before it became a series of tremendous blockbuster series, but the immediate aftermath cemented Tolkien's work as a titan of another medium. Unfortunately, nothing in the intervening 22 years has reached anywhere near those early peaks. The unfortunate knock-on effect of this decline is that fans become increasingly distrustful of new material. Nostalgia can be a black hole that sucks up everything good about a franchise, as the Star Wars universe can attest.