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Thing is though, those original ideas don't have a brand attached to it and thus will either notnget made or get the necessary budget required. I am perfectly okay using an established IP as a way to fund something new and original that otherwise wouldn't get eyeballs because all anyone supports is popular IPs. To me, that's just more interesting than "Hey, here is a movie about Gollun joining a Middle Earth folk band and touring the country side, and then gets chased by some Nazgul looking for the ring and he gets saved by random cameo characters just to get cheap nostalgia pops" movies they're likely to makeI absolutely agree on that, these spin-offs scream "desperate" but if they start making **** up whole cloth then just make a different high fantasy franchise. If you divorce Middle Earth from Tolkien's writing then it really isn't that unique (I know it's the OG but you don't need the LOTR IP to tell stories about a quasi-medieval world inhabited by elves, dwarves and orcs).