They weren't bound by any contract to stick only to book mentioned material. Look at the goblin faction for instance. The only real hero goblins are Bolg, Azog, and Golfimbul,all are dead at the time of the War of the Ring. In almost any project, like this one, you'll find some of the director and crew's ideas. The only ones you won't really are movie titles and sports franchises. This was a passion project, meaning that they had to follow ideas from books and movies, but were allowed to add thier own stories, contents, and other such features as they please.
The only heroes that were made up that werent in either book or movie were Drogoth the Dragon Lord and Gorkil the Goblin King. All of the others were characters in the books and movies. Sharku and Lurtz of Isengard were in the movies, and Saruman and Wormtongue were in both.
Of Mordor, all of the Nazgul, the Witch King, and The Mouth of Sauron were in the movies and books(watch the extended edition of ROTK for the Mouth). Of the Elves, Celeborn, Elrond, Arwen, Legolas, and Haldir were in the movies. Thranduil and Glorfindel weren't, but were in the book. All of the men were characters of both movie and book. All three dwarf heroes were in the book, and Gimli in the movie.
A few units, like the Half-Trolls and Dwarf units were made up, but there were very few references to the dwarf army in the books, if any at all. Plenty of Thorin's company, but not much of thier soldiers. None of the elf or man units were really made up. None really of Isengard or Mordor also. They did not do as Horrible as a job as you accuse them of.
Nevertheless, this mod looks interesting.
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