Nah, you dislike changes to the source material—fair enough, so do I. But all adaptions make changes that the author did not intend for and if you wanna be true to Tolkien's spirit, you should hate PJ's LOTRs, even Christopher Tolkien despised them.
Do you know what Disney did? It's not as extreme as what they did but the situation kinda same. They did Cinderella and for some reason, they thought making the fairy a black trans guy will be okay.