I may go back and watch at least Ep 1. In the first episode after a minute or so an elf showed up with a haircut that made him look like he’d just stepped out of a Beverly Hills hair salon and I stopped streaming.
I know in an interview one of the showrunners asked “don’t you want the show to look like the world around you?”. I figured she was talking the diversity angle, but apparently she meant the cast would literally look like hip young people of today. That may be ok for younger folks, but I first read LOTR 50 years ago this month and I guess I’m not in the target audience.
What an odd question. Of course you don't -- it is Tolkien's Middle Earth, not the good 'ol USA circa 2022. I mean, isn't a fantasy supposed to take you to a world different from your own?? I mean, would you want Hogwarts and its denizens to look like your local high school?