What parts of the legendarium do you wish we knew more?

[kzer_za]

Tolkien's legendarium is of course an unfinished project, with only LotR and The Hobbit as the absolutely definitive "canon" (and even there, The Hobbit is problematic in some ways). So what do you wish he had written more about?

The biggest one that will be obvious to anyone who's dove deep into the legendarium is the aborted rewrite of Fall of Gondolin. A completed version would have been spectacular indeed.

I wish we knew more about the outer nations of Harad, Rhun, Khand, etc and he would have developed their history and culture further. The racial or at least ethnocentric critique that the non-western nations are, even if not inherently evil, all monolithically deceived by Sauron has some legitimacy I think. Tolkien was thinking in the right direction with his late reconsideration of the blue wizards (see HoME XII), having pockets of resistance against Sauron in the East for thousands of years even back to the Second Age - too bad he never got to elaborate. (It would be a nice irony if Harad was resisting Sauron more effectively than late Númenor!)

I would like to hear more about Beorn and the Beornings outside The Hobbit, as well as the woodmen.

[Alatar]

I'd like to know what was happening in the War in the North during the War of the Ring.

[Frelga]

I'd like to know what was happening in the War in the North during the War of the Ring.

+1

[Jude]

I would have liked to read the stories in The Silmarillion, but told from the point of view of everyday people. That's one of the things that made LOTR so compelling.

[Inanna]

I would really like to know about the two Blue Istari.

[Frelga]

I've always been intrigued by the grim hillmen of Lamedon...

[yovargas]

Poor, poor Ghân Buri Ghân. Nobody ever wants to know more about them.

[Frelga]

Poor, poor Ghân Buri Ghân. Nobody ever wants to know more about them.

I do!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

There's a whole section in Unfinished Tales about the Drúedain, Ghân's people.


Personally, I would like to hear more about the three remarkable daughters of Gerontius "the Old Took" Took.

[Impenitent]

Like Vinnie, I've always wanted to know more about the peoples of the east.

Sent from a tiny phone keyboard via Tapatalk - typos inevitable.

[Frelga]

Actually, I read something, and now what I want is a romantic comedy detailing Beorn's courtship and marriage. Because, who? And how?

[Inanna]

What did you read?

[Frelga]

What did you read?

Someone asking that very question. Possibly on the blog that I linked in the Bree thread.

[Morwenna]

I'd like to know more about the area around he Sea of Rhun, particularly Dorwinion. The Mirkwood elves traded with the people there for their wines, probably among other things, and I can't help wondering what other settlements were along the River Running. Were they men? more elves? If men, where from, or more accurately, to whom they were related: Easterlings? Northmen? Relatives of the Beornings?

[Inanna]

Hi, Morwenna!

[Snowdog]

wish we knew more about the outer nations of Harad, Rhun, Khand, etc and he would have developed their history and culture further.

Yes! these areas have been the subject of a lot of my fan fiction!

I'd like to know more about the area around he Sea of Rhun, particularly Dorwinion.

Another area of interest of mine. How the men of Dale, the Easterlings, and back in history, Rhovania and how they all contended with each other, and how did such fine wine come to be made in Dorwinion?

probably the most interesting area and time for me is the northern kingdom of Arnor and the history. the whole issue of the partition has always had interest to me.