I personally crusaded against the whole thing in my circles, but i may have a different angle. I take for a fact that any americand production will need to have forced niggers and faggots because America have niggers and somehow faggots managed to hijack themselves into the slavery-master narrative. I mean, it is what it is.

But LOTR is not just a random fantasy you can butcher and call it a day. It's not like the wheel of times - good books, but anyway just the product of an american mormon that really liked strong gender roles and polygamy. LOTR is a european and catholic mythology explicitly crafted in order to be that. Changing elements is changing the symbolic value, and thus the religious values. It's straight up blasphemous. Expecially when it comes to the Simarillion, which is the most theological and metaphysical book.