Tolkien said The New Shadow would be merely a 'thriller' [as opposed to a _faery_/mythological story] and therefore not worth writing.
Christopher Tolkien said that thriller or not, its abandoment was lamentable, since it would have made a most remarkable thriller. I'm inclined to agree. I guess that the unfinished and perpetually developing state of the legends of the first two Ages, which Tolkien vastly preferred, demanded a higher priority as well.
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