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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I appreciate that sort of back story. I just don't think every last bit of it needs to be explored in future works. Doing that can rob the initial work of some of what made it special.
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Bingo! Most readers only
think they want more, more, more from their favorite works/settings/worlds, when in fact, they really want more of the wonder they felt from reading the first books. None of which can be renewed by shining more and more light into every nook and cranny of the areas that you used to fill with your imagination. The ultimate result of the "more, more, please more" approach is the slow death of the wonder/mystery that attracted you in the first place. Better to be left wanting more than to risk getting it and not liking it. Middle Earth is done. Its creator is dead. Let it be done (except for the re-tellings, of course).