Silmarillion Writers' Guild

You said it beautifully, Lois! The examples are all there from Tolkien himself. I think that he changed his mind so many times while putting together his mythology that he left behind a truly rich variety of material from which we fanfic writers can choose when deciding what to write about ourselves. I think that this also tends to spark our imaginations more so than if he had left a legacy of strict codes and behaviour, but he did not!