[Galorme]

I got scared there. Worng sounds like an orcish torture word to me. I have a habit of picking debates at the edge of the slightly fuzzy area's of Tolkiens work. I think it annoys people that i take the stuff written in the histories as truthful as the later works. I also take the thing to be true if it is fun and cool, not so much if it makes sense. I can strongly recommend any of the histories providing you read them for the right reasons. The Sil and the LoTRs, and especially LoTR contains much more 'true' stuff than the histories. Read them in their own right, they are almost all excellent providing you don’t expect the wrong things from them.

Oh yeah on the original topic I think that the best plot for a story would be to include Eriol, who is the character from the Lost Tales. He is a man who travels to the lonely isle, by a combination of good luck and bad luck on the part of the Elves (Osse was not quite the anchorer he made himself out to be. i will leave that as a teaser). There he learns of the elves and the things in the Sil, but more importantly he sees wonderful things and meets old and wise elves who tell him about the world and its history. He visits Kortion (sp???), and learns of the cottage of lost play. I think that this is a wonderful feel, a happiness, a magic quality. It is very much Faerie, and it is even called such (The Haven of Swans is called The Bay of Faere). This is how you would make the next, and definitely final book. Ack i really want to say something else but it will ruin the book for you (lets just say it ends very much with man).