I was neutral on this before but I am turning into an advocate for Tolkien That Fucks just to spite everyone who is melting down over the thought of some characters getting their mines explored
This is not a principled stance because I would go the other way just as easily if the situation were somehow reversed (“HOW DARE THEY TAKE THE SEX OUT OF TOLKIEN”)
like sure it would probably horrify the old man if we saw a few hot Cracks Of Doom in an adaptation of his work, but there's a lot of things that would horrify him that are objectively fine, I'm not bothered