I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this.

This is not some random tie-in to the LOTR franchise. Moleskine used to be one of the main notebooks for artists for a long time, and as the article mentions some of their notebooks have featured artists in their cover, their manifesto is all about "timeless power of handwriting" and "put pen to paper, and unleash your unique voice", etc. Having a company with that reputation and those connections to the art world just go with some AI slop for this collaboration is a slap to the face to its own users for potentially selling some notebooks to unsuspecting LOTR fans.

It's the enshittification of a brand once loved by artists.

> Moleskine used to be one of the main notebooks for artists for a long time

Isn't that just a story they made up to push their product?