Recently, game submissions opened for Coulee Con, a local gaming convention that takes place over one weekend every August. This year I’m offering a scenario based on Tolkien’s “The New Shadow,” which is an aborted sequel to The Lord of the Rings. Christopher Tolkien collected the fragment in 1996’s The Peoples of Middle-Earth. It’s an interesting piece, obviously, not least because it was intended to become another book set in Middle-earth — a book from no less than the great … Continue reading The Lost Literature of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The New Shadow”