<story><title>New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published</title><url>https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2022/06/new-tolkien-book-the-fall-of-numenor-to-be-published/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>This might be blasphemous among LOTR fans, but I wish the Tolkien family would work with other authors to complete these stories. You can still publish all the drafts and notes you want, but I would love to see them written in a more digestible format. There is so much potential in all these stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeusExMachina</author><text>As a Tolkien fan I have absolutely zero interest in any of these, no matter how well they could be written (and given what is happening with Amazon&amp;#x27;s The Rings of Power, that&amp;#x27;s not a given).&lt;p&gt;A fan of Tolkien&amp;#x27;s original stories is exactly that, not a fan of any story written by a random author with the same characters in it. There are plenty of fantasy novels that don&amp;#x27;t enjoy the same level of success for that reason.&lt;p&gt;There is no lack of elfves, dwarves, wizards, and dragons. What is lacking is Tolkien&amp;#x27;s talent.</text></comment>
<story><title>New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published</title><url>https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2022/06/new-tolkien-book-the-fall-of-numenor-to-be-published/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>This might be blasphemous among LOTR fans, but I wish the Tolkien family would work with other authors to complete these stories. You can still publish all the drafts and notes you want, but I would love to see them written in a more digestible format. There is so much potential in all these stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ren_engineer</author><text>&amp;gt;There is so much potential in all these stories&lt;p&gt;potential for what? Making more money? I&amp;#x27;m glad Tolkien&amp;#x27;s son actually had the decency to not squeeze his father&amp;#x27;s legacy for every penny. Within months of him stepping down at age 93 whoever is in charge of it now signed the contract with Amazon</text></comment>