AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It's a whole campaign the Republicans are doing to get rid of Hollywood influence in society. They don't like Disney. They don't like Jeff Bezos and he's behind the Rings of Powers.It's got nothing to do with alt-right.
If you have little invested in the source material, these liberties would not bother you.
If, on the other hand, you are attached to the source material and have certain expectations on how the characters should look based on descriptions in the source material, then these changes become extremely jarring and off putting.