The arrogance of people gets at me sometimes! And I'm the last girl to say that authorial intent means beans, or that all authors should be seen as divine arteestes, but there's a big difference between the freedom of deconstruction and this idea that obviously writers just don't bother to think.

The other thing with LotR is that it's demonstrably been functioning just fine for oh pretty much ages. All these flaws that the movie people found, did they just magically hide for fifty years?

By rushing to judgment, by assuming that these things must just be problems, we miss out on the chance to consider more deeply the author's apparent point and its successes/failures.