Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26815144-20160121092442/@comment-27652981-20160121224730

I'm certain that some people are going to hate me for this but here goes:

It's not that non canon stuff doesn't matter, it's that we have a choice about what non canon material we use.We could just stick to canon material and the western regions, but by introducing our own material and expanding on what is already there we can populate the gaps I the lore and forge a world which is formed from both Tolkien's mind as well as our own. We can use our imaginations to bring forth a realm of unlimited possibility on the edges of the map. And why would we want to do this?

Has it ever occurred to you that Tolkien left those gaps for a reason? Think on it.