[Oliver_W]

If the producers really had the balls to make a diverse show, they should have gone all the way and set it in Harad, which is Middle Earth's Africa. That way, they could have a majority black show! Make it about Sauron corrupting their people, and the two Blue Wizards fight against him.

Apart from broad strokes, there's so little Tolkien wrote about that, that they could basically write whatever they wanted without pissing people off.