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Christopher Tolkien did not make up any stories. He published his father's unfinished and/or unpublished works and, yeah, probably had to fill in a few gaps in the stories J.R.R. Tolkien created. Likewise, neither Fran Walsh, P. Boyens, Peter Jackson or even Ralph Bakshi made up any of the Tolkien stories they adapted.
Heck, Jackson barely invented a single scene that wasn't in Tolkien's works, perhaps in a slightly different form.
That's quite different than having Legolas get it on with Aragorn during some dark moonless night in the shadow of the Misty Mountains. I'm not dismissing the video game or fan fiction stuff out of hand. I don't know any of it, and I'll admit some of it might be good. I'll take you at your word, Cherny, that some of the game stories are quite good.
But they're no more legitimate than anything you or I would write about Frodo the nine-fingered hand-job.
Since I have inborn doubts about any film sequel, I feel free to doubt aforehand the misguided effort to film some illegitimately imagined story of Baby Samwise goes to Hobbit School.
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