JRR Tolkien would approve of having more diversity in this series. He was pretty "woke" himself back in the day.

There's nothing woke in those letters. There's no white-guilt, no hate of white males, no hate of western culture.

Quite the opposite: Tolkien's work is a love letter to English mythology and culture.

And if wanted more "diversity", well, guess what? He would have added it himself. No need for some white woke saviors to rewrite his works decades later in his name.

Be against racism is not woke is just common human decency and common sense

Today wokeness and hyper sensibilities is something new please dont compare liberal people from the past how speak from common with todays nonsense

You can't be that ignorant.
It's not about actors. It's about the characters.
By all means, use black\yellow\red\green\purple actors. Just use make-up or CGI to make them look like they are supposed to.

Alternatively, it's a big Middle-Earth. You can always make a show about Easterlings of Haradrim. You can literally invent those cultures since there is very little known about them. You can make them as diverse as you want, add gender equality etc. Just keep your ideologically zealous hands from the source material.

Being a linguist, JRR would have told you that the phrase “back in the day” is a ghetto corruption of the correct phrase, “back in THE OLD days.”

Thinking about it i dont recall a single Black actor in either of the trilogies ,. How the hell did he get away with that