I have high hopes that the 5E OGL will really start to open up the game...and this would seem to qualify! Very excited for this.
"You will have my sword..."I'll be curious to see if they essentially rewrite the game to fit ME, using only the core of D&D 5E for mechanics, or if they try and accommodate the many D&Disms that don't really fit. I think the best we can hope for is the former but with strongly maintained compatibility so that people who want to add dragonborn warlocks to ME can do so seamlessly (though not likely without consequences!).
I wonder what timeline they'll use.
I think the idea behind this is cool but something about Middle Earth just never translated well to RPG in my opinion. This was the problem with the MERP and Rolemaster versions. For one thing, the story line is so well established it is not easy to bend the canon.
Have you made any other predictions that haven't (yet) come true, Nostradamus?I called this...