It is much easier to accuse the fandom of shallow racism than actually trying to understand their criticisms. Since The Rings of Power was announced, there has been much speculation as to how the series would handle portraying Middle Earth’s past since Amazon only has the rights to a very narrow portion of the timeline. In one sense, this has given the filmmakers a large amount of “creative freedom” to explore a relatively unknown era in the franchise. However, the creativity espoused by the filmmakers has been rubbing some Lord of the Rings fans the wrong way. One of the