#now im tempted to get some popcorn

I never understand it when people make modern lotr AUs that perfectly mirror the real (usually western) world. Like, if we had elves and dwarves and so on, can you imagine the discourse?? Do elves have “immortality privilege?” Is it insensitive for them to make references to it where mortals can hear? Is it problematic that hobbit communities literally cannot fit non hobbit occupants and are therefore exclusionary? The heated debates between elves who lived through a historical event versus a mortal who is very sure that actually they know better what happened back then, thank you very much. Friends, it would be a trash fire.