[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

It's not entirely true that no other writer has been allowed to publish material based on Tolkien's work. There was The Fall of Gondolin by Alex Lewis. However, and it's a fairly big caveat, he directly asked for the approval of Priscilla Tolkien (some say, it was perhaps a fait accompli that she was presented with - the Tolkien Society is rife with gossips so who knows...) and it was limited to a strictly private publication of fifty copies only!

However, Lewis' Fall of Gondolin wasn't really fan-fic, but rather Tolkien's own Gondolin texts sutured together.