Despite all of its flaws, I’ll never hate WotR because it made my personal visualization of Middle Earth as a Japanese anime a reality.
Jessie GenderHot take: if you don’t want to see the Andy Serkis Lord of the Rings movie because of Serkis’ rancid vibes; the animated LOTR: War of the Rohhirrim movie that nobody saw was actually good and textually about how women’s contributions to history are often erased to venerate men.