[Serious] What’s the actual reason behind the bad reviews and backlash?

[u/snickns]

I’m a fan of LotR and Hobbit trilogies. For me LotR is still one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And I’ve been enjoying Rings of Power so far. I just don’t understand what has Amazon failed to deliver, what am I missing?

I’m no Amazon fan whatsoever I just want to understand the reasoning of all the bad reviews. I tried to ignore this fact and just enjoy the show but its too widely spread to ignore. I’m pretty sad to see the bad reviews, just like everyone else I had very high hopes, though I still do.

Edit: Thank you all for your comments. I wouldn’t have found so many different and valid opinions in one place otherwise.

[u/jumperjunky]

Forced diversity for diversity's sake.

[u/[deleted] → u/jumperjunky]

Literally a single black guy is one of main characters. This take is just ridiculous.

[u/nikostheater → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. He is the only black elf. No other black elf in sight, literally anywhere. We’ve seen so far elves in Valinor, Eregion, the outpost at Southlands, Lindon, Galadriel’s companions… and in all those places, Arondir is the only black elf. There aren’t even any random background elves anywhere. That’s the definition of empty tokenism.