Why did Tolkien abandon The New Shadow?!
The New Shadow was meant to be the sequel to The Lord of the Rings, but Tolkien decided to abandon it after a few pages. Tolkien expressed that he surely could have written a thriller about it, but since we are dealing with Men – Men! – whose nature of quick satiety with the good had already much to tell in the downfall of Númenor, history was bound to repeat. And Tolkien thought it was not worth doing.
