New Middle Earth novel(ization)?

[Sauron the White]

I would be dead set against such a thing. To do a novelized version of a movie which is adapted from the books themselves seems akin to literary incest. It does not pass the smell test.

It would be like doing a novelized version of the LOTR films with all the changes and have two competing LOTR book versions. There should only be one set of books and those are the ones written by JRR Tolkien or authorized by the Tolkien Estate.

I am a big advocate for keeping the books and films as individual entities. Lets keep it that way.

[Volo]

I wouldn't buy it, I'd get it from the library.

But seriously, why not, I don't have anything the imagination of others. It feels unfair if a best-selling book is based heavily on something written by somebody else, but aren't most books that anyway.

I would regard such books as "Tolkien" because they're not, but at the moment I can't find a reason why I wouldn't touch them. If they're written, they might be worth reading.

Somehow this reminds me of Gone With the Wind's sequel, though I have read neither the original nor the sequel.

[Beanamir of Gondor]

See, the only problem I would have with this is that it smells distinctly of fanfic. That's not to say that I don't enjoy fanfic every once in a while: oh no, quite the contrary. But reading yaoi CharlesxSydney or an account of how Jay Gatsby really didn't get shot is a LOT different than reading A Tale of Two Cities or The Great Gatsby. Fanfic is not really very respectable, and it is always, always, always different than the author's original work.
Ahem. Anyway, that's my English-major view on it. While I might enjoy reading it for fun, it would never really be Tolkien, and therefore I just wouldn't see it as part of the Middlearth narrative.