LOTR is the OG and still the best. Orcs and Elves both have very specific roles in LOTR that is deeply tied in to the history and cosmology of the setting. Most attempts to do Orcs and Elves in other media have problems because they're trying to use Tolkiens orcs and elves, but their world doesn't have the back ground that justifies why Orcs and Elves exist.
LOTR is the OG and still the best. Orcs and Elves both have very specific roles in LOTR that is deeply tied in to the history and cosmology of the setting. Most attempts to do Orcs and Elves in other media have problems because they're trying to use Tolkiens orcs and elves, but their world doesn't have the back ground that justifies why Orcs and Elves exist.
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But that copying is also what makes lotr succed as a modern mythology.