MGibster
Legend
I don't think the setting is what matters the most here. Someone with a good strong vision, meaning they've got a story to tell, could write a good story set at just about any period in Middle Earth. And I'm saying this as someone who has almost zero interest in anything to do with Middle Earth. One of the problems they have is that Tolkien wrote a fantasy masterpiece, and odds are good whatever story you write is going to fall short. And this is assuming the studio doesn't interfere with the good story like they do so often.