This is what I was talking about. This isn't just a, "Scotty doesn't know how a warp drive works." moment in regard to a new Lord of the Rings show, this is shitting on Tolkien's moral messages.
This is like having the Borg come back to Star Trek as morally complex individuals.
I love several stories that bring up moral complexity, and grey areas. That's not what Tolkien had in mind. This is a guy who lived through two world wars. He saw Nazim face to face before publishing his novels.
The orcs were always all male in Tolkien's work. The Peter Jackson films were pretty damn faithful to that.
It's not because Tolkien didn't want to show diversity. It's because orcs weren't supposed to be human nor humanized. They were supposed to be the embodiment of evil. You might as well gripe about WWII movies portraying Nazis as the clear bad guys, and without enough "representation."
It's fine if moral relativism is your thing (well, it's really not). That's not what Tolkien believed. He definitely believed in moral truth. He believed in God. He believed in good and evil. He wrote his books believing in good and evil.
If you want to make a fantasy theory in which both sides in a conflict have valid points, and are all made up of decent people who love their families and only go to war out of necessity, write your own damn story. Put in the damn work. Don't steal someone else's work.
Fuck you Amazon.