I haven't even watched it because everything I've heard about it makes me think this is the sort of thing I wouldn't enjoy, and I say this as someone who exclusively writes AUs. I don't want to sound like I'm being gatekeeperish and making fun of people who enjoy it - I think it's fine for people to like what they like. But I would have to suspend my disbelief a lot to get into it. Which is too bad, because I was pretty excited about the casting of BIPOC actors, I approve of elves of color, but I don't approve of short-haired Finrod or geriatric Celebrimbor [not trying to sound ageist, I'm middle-aged, but canonically the Quendi are immortal and shouldn't look that old, except for the extremely old ones like Círdan] or whatever's making people think Galadriel/Sauron is canon now.