If I saw a book of fanfics or RPGs and they looked good, I'd buy them, as I would if they published any of these strange 'sequels' (there is one to Pride & Prejudice which I'm often intrigued by). I'd buy them, but I suspect it would be simply to satisfy my curiosity, and I can find such good work in our own RPG and fanfic areas on the 'Downs. I have seen the vast numbers of Star Trek novels out there - but then this is a different matter as they are based on visual entertainment - and there really needs to be not much more embellishment to Tolkien apart from what is already freely available out there.
And it all has to be canonical of course.
Now I'm going to take the plunge and make myself look stupid.

Can someone explain what slash exactly is? Because I'm scared I might have written some if it's what I think it is.