Did JRRT encourage new ME stories?

[Morwen]

Originally Posted by Feanorsdoom

The important part, as Morwen puts it, is the quality of writing that would be considered authoritative.

That's not what I said. You're fusing two different points.
(a) I expressed a view that fanfic writers do not mean for their works to be seen as authoritative. This has nothing to do with the quality of their writing.

(b)

As for the Estate annointing someone to create a Non Canon body of work this sounds like the kind of thing Hollywood movie moguls engage in, trying to capitalise on a brilliant original by churning out sequels of questionable quality. And I think the question of quality has to be a real concern. (emphasis added)

I specifically raise a question about the quality of a Non Canon body of work, work that isn't part of the canon and therefore not authoritative.