Being different in lore or not doesn't affect the fact that when I play I play with weapons and armors imported from LotR. This inmediatly leads players who don't go in depth in the lore aspects of the mod to think they're playing a middle earth pararel universe thing.
Again. I'm not trying to despise your work or the dev's team work, or the lore makers' work, or whatever. I'm saying that renaming elfs to elvarie, dwarfs to dwarfs (lol, still better than midgets), writting lore and scripting a chain of events and quests isn't as inmersive as it could be without the exact same models as more known and recognized fantasy universes that started a trend.
I'm justifying people asking for orcs, uruk hai and white mages, not trying to start an argument with you (the dev team), whose work is acknowledged, while also pointing my opinion, which I believe is perfectly justified.