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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Heck, Jackson barely invented a single scene that wasn't in Tolkien's works, perhaps in a slightly different form.
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See, that's what I thought too -- till I started re-reading LotR. There are full on scenes in the movie that either never took place in the book or were presented in a MASSIVELY different form (ie. at the beginning, the chase scene to the Brandywine Bridge, Sam talking about being far out from the Shire, the characters of Merry and Pippin are massively different, Aragorn being reluctant to rule Gondor was not in the book, etc... there's a site with a MASSIVE list of things that were different... and I need to leave for DL in a minute lol). I guess in your estimation, they went from the Shire to Breeland, and even though everything that happened to them along the way was different, they still went from the Shire to Breeland so it's still "Tolkien". Remember, one of the things legal arguing teaches us is that the more you generalize, the more you can find similarities between two concepts
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But they're no more legitimate than anything you or I would write about Frodo the nine-fingered hand-job.
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Of course they aren't "canon", never said they were, or should be considered as such. To me, this is like August Derlerth and his fellows writing Cthulhu Mythos stories (even some of which didn't exactly jibe with HP Lovecraft's original vision): Some of them are good fun in their own right, but they aren't "really" part of the mythos. So what. It isn't reason to nuke the idea from birth. Lord of the Rings Online, for example, sort of goes along with the idea of what the rest of everyone else in Middle-Earth was doing while the fellowship (in the current game world) was over in Rivendell. It isn't canon, but it adds both an interesting interpretation of middle-earth and lets us visualize places that Tolkien only really mentioned in passing.
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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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Frodo and Sam: The Experimentation Years? .... oops we're back to that again.