Maybe the casting shouldn’t be a problem, but the kids asked what happened to all of the black hobbits and elves in LotR.

I had to sidestep that landmine very fast.

I’m not saying that you don’t have a valid critique, but you’ve played into their trap just by publicly posting this online. Now instead of having a valid discussion as to how they’ve butchered the actual story, now they can just lean on how most critics of the show are “racist”, which will garner ratings

Funny how these people have 500 zillion to invest then hire shit writers.

We have an old and well-established culture of writers and system for rating those writers. You'd think they'd consult that.

Apparently, the bigger problem is that Amazon didn’t pay for the rights to the Silmarillion which explains a lot