[narfforc]

I am satisfied with what Tolkien left us as it stands, however I would like more. I feel that there is a possibility of more, inasmuch as the history of most things is a continous thing, it is still being written. I agree with Lalwende , in the view that Tolkien was pretty much burnt out at the end of The Third Age, he still had not finished, or had published his great work, The Silmarillion. I believe he neither had the will or strength to start a new story, his continuation of The History of Middle-earth was more important, and he would not be side-tracked again. I disagree with even Tolkien himself, that a story of The Fourth Age could not be written, or be of interest, he left many loose ends that could be expanded upon, the difference of me writing about The Dagor Dagorath and Tolkien introducing new themes based on old ones, is immense, yet I have done it, and in my mind, I believe had Tolkien taken up these new themes, he could have done this thing. I am but a lowly scholar of the great man, and my writing skills are puny compared to him, however my imagination knows no bounds, and I have for my own enjoyement written of The Return of Pallando. To do this I have had to take canonicity out of the argument. I did this by treating Tolkien as translator instead of author. He discovered/translated The Red Book of Westmarch and The Silmarillion, these are mainly a view of how The Elves and the Victorious West saw things (they did not know all things, Tolkien says so). Now imagine another ancient book turns up ala The Dead Sea Scrolls or Nag Hammadi, this book is called The Black Book of Melkor, it is compiled by The Black Numenoreans and scholars from the East. The story told from their perspective is similiar, however it contains new themes that are not known to the West, here are just a few, for I can already hear the screams:

Melkor and Ungoliant destroy The Two Trees, and steal the Silmarils, however he also takes another great treasure, a flower from Telperion. He bathes this in the unlight of Ungoliant and puts forth his power into the corupted seeds. With these seeds he grows The Dark Tree, which he plants in caverns deep in the Mountains of the East, with this tree are The Fathers of The Orcs, the original Elven stock (it is their children that Melkor twisted into the Orcs). The Tree gives out an Unlight that will be needed to free Melkor Lord of Arda.

In the beginning Melkor corrupted many to his service, Alatar is one of these, this fact has been hidden from the Valar, the reason for this, is that Melkor forsaw the possibility of his fall, and he needed some form of insurance for his release/return, this was to have been Saurons domination of The Elves via The Rings of Power, however Sauron falls from his task due to his own will for domination. Enter Alatar, and a number of artifacts needed to consruct the Staff of Power, the key to unlock the Gates of the Night and allow The Dagor Dagorath to begin.

This is but a very brief description of my personal story, I have included them to show in some way a possible continuation of the story, there may be other better stories out there.

Please do not answer this thread with the usual SHOW ME WHERE TOLKIEN SAYS THAT, I know he did not, and even if I was secretly a member of the Tolkien family, and wrote this book, it would still have people howling at the moon.

My desire is for more, for other things, Aule would be proud of me...................


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