1) correct, but it was written and designed to be an 'alternate' history and that's the lens it was imagined through, hence why there's not only 3 different languages fabricated in this work, they are also all well established enough to be actual legitimate languages in their own right, the same way that many languages of the world today exist, the peoples in the works have such well documented histories that you could easily see it as a real event long passed, unlike 'modern' fantasy literature which has nowhere near that level of world building or detail.
2) yeah that's fine, as long as you say ahead of time that's what you have planned all along and that's the end goal of the project, this showrunner team came out all guns blazing with the 'pure adaptation of the works of Tolkein' propaganda, and when it was made perfectly clear it was a fan fiction mess, they quickly switched gears and pushed that it was a 'reimagining' of the works and that they were looking to 'write the novel that Tolkein never wrote', and now in their most recent interviews and press releases they are actively saying that they are creating the world of middle earth 'inspired by the works of Tolkein', if they had come out and stated the truth of the matter from the getgo, i can guarantee they would have had less backlash overall than they have currently had because they set the initial expectations of 'word for word adaptation with little to no deviation', which quickly turned into the shitshow it's expected to be.
3) Amazon has a well documented 'diversity and inclusion policy' regarding any projects they work on, meaning that the showrunners are FORCED BY MANDATE to include people of colour and minorities in any project (at least 30% of the cast), which they are trying to expand to 50% by 2024, meaning that lets say for arguements sake there's a project greenlit in 2024 surrounding the events of the battle of hastings from 1066, to be historically accurate everyone involved would need to be white, but due to the MANDATE from Amazon, half the cast would need to be POC/diversity hires, which completely breaks the accuracy of the history.
this is the EXACT same thing here, the staunch defenders of this shitshow are the ones who champion this kind of racist and demeaning policy, also you're showing clearly you're unable to disassociate terms and are unable to see things from multiple angles by calling people who want these MANDATED diversity hires removed from the show and the characters they portray to be cast as they should have been originally within the context of the original works, as bigoted when in reality the vast majority of people who hold that position aren't even remotely close to being bigots, it's also not racist to want showrunners and writers to stick to the original works when writing already established characters instead of self inserting their own fucking agenda into things, which this project has done at almost every turn:
the character of Elrond in this show is one of a scheming politician, one who works in the shadows (stereotype to make the white guy appear to be a bad guy), gil-galad so far has been shown as some kind of ineffectual king and ruler of his people (stereotypes to make the white character look dumb), the new made up white guy they have cast as some no name human male, is a coward and deserter who is being given some faux redemption arc (yet more stereotypes to make the white guy look bad), and as i have already said now multiple times over, everything that has been shown so far whether that be the 'all sparkles no substance' video's with greenscreen and CGI work that looks 15 years old at this point, or the interviews and panels that have been put on, EVERYTHING show undertones of the 'woke' 'message', and all of the scenes shown so far are so far removed from anything described in the original works, it's as stated, purely fan fiction, and yet that's not what the original expectations that were set out by the showrunners.
could you please educate me and explain to me how 2 of the main female lead characters of this project are allowed to self insert their beliefs and values onto the characters they are playing?, i thought the whole point of being an actor whether that be on film or on stage was to play the character presented to you and you're to leave yourself out of it, and yet in their recent panel interviews at SDCC, the female dwarf character was shouting from the rooftops about female empowerment and how she is happy to be given a platform to advocate for that, and the other saying she is a feminism activist as well as an activist for her beliefs and thinks that her character in this project is the perfect vessel for her to showcase those beliefs, could you please break it down and dumb it down so i can understand why this is allowed and me and others calling out how stupid it is, is wrong?, because i'm genuinely at a loss here understanding this 'modern world' if this is the way things are.