Although I agree with you completely on this, especially the CMF series, it just won't ever happen. There was a project on CUUSOO a while back called something like "dark bucket" that was 99 storm troopers and Darth Vader that was shot down. From what I recall, the major reasoning behind it was LEGO is a building you company, and the license they have (at least for starwars related stuff) needs to be centered on a build, not the figures, which requires a different license. Now I could be wrong, but it's probably pretty safe to assume that they have a similar license for the lotr and hobbit stuff as well. Meaning there would need to be some building aspect.
That would have been the perfect though.