To the commenters who believe they own Tanner's critique of the Americanization of Tolkien by pointing out that Jackson is from New Zealand: I guess Germany is off the hook for WWII now because Hitler was born in Austria?

The less polemic version of that take is: Jackson's LOTR was produced by Americans. LOTR was green-lit in the late 1990s at the height of US imperial power. The film was made first and foremost for American audiences.