Also, half the appeal of GoT is all the gratuitous nudity, with the other half being the gratuitous violence, and the last half a semi-decent story of a bunch of unlikable assholes. How do you make the LotR universe fit that mold? It has almost no female characters, no gory battles, and the story almost completely lacks nasty assholes. Even Sauron doesn't have the nastiness inherent in most GoT characters.
