It’s not cultural appropriation; that’s been covered.
Cultural appropriation is not intrinsically bad, that’s been covered. Like your appropriation of this “Viking” persona. That’s silly, but not necessarily bad.
How “bad” a tale is, is subjective. Proved by your subjective opinion on the Hobbit movies.
Matt
P.S. Thanks for addressing my points in my lengthy post up there. Even one would have been enough.