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ASOIAF is going to go down as a disappointment if it remains unfinished. It will be remembered only for wasting its potential. I have no idea what the 21st century LOTR will be. It will probably be as different from current fantasy as LOTR was from the fantasy of its own day. The whole reason LOTR is remembered is that it so profoundly changed things for fantasy and science fiction.

I will say that my imagination was jump-started as a teenager by reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. You might give that a try, OP.

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This. The books would probably work a lot better as a TV series. Also, supposedly the Tolkien Estate has been in contact with some of these streaming services. If they got Christopher Tolkien and some other scholars to help them out, it could really be something special. The LOTR movies hold a special place in my heart but I'm not sure they're the truest translation of the books.

The thing about Tolkien that I truly admire is his commitment to the idea of goodness, the twin ideas of truth and beauty. You get the sense that he really did believe that men could be just and grand, that they could rise above their demons and achieve tremendous things. This spirit is found in The Lord of the Rings, especially in how powerful and magnificent the forces of good are. From the hobbits to the elves to the dwarves, to the men of Rohan and Gondor, the forces of good are tremendous and powerful. So often in these dumb fantasy series we're impressed by the forces of evil, but only in LOTR do we seem to be impressed by the forces of good. Tolkien makes good feel powerful and mighty in a way too many fantasy writers don't.

>you will never live in Minas Tirith
>you will never be a Man of Gondor, standing proudly even in the twilight of your nation, knowing that you uphold the echoes of the glory of Numenor even in the face of the Dark Lord