Wish me luck on my Netflix pitch for my hot new polyhedron focused concept: Is it Rupert?
Barry Cynamon
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By day, recovering economist and lender with a heart at Student Freedom Fund. On here, mostly random thoughts. I like science fiction, biotechnology, household finance, causal inference, home fermentation, and powerlifting.
![He [Tolkein] commented this in 1972, fifteen months before his death:
"I have written nothing beyond the first few years of the Fourth Age. (Except the beginning of a tale supposed to refer to the end of the reign of Eldaron about 100 years after the death of Aragorn.
Then I of course discovered that the King's Peace would contain no tales worth recounting; and his wars would have little interest after the overthrow of Sauron; but that almost certainly a restlessness would appear about then, owing to the (it seems) inevitable boredom of Men with the good: there would be secret societies practising dark cults, and 'orc-cults' among adolescents.) "
- Letter 338, (dated 6 June 1972)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xrgeqtqe2gknoxlcg2a2nayh/bafkreihbtarqqsyvpupzqkz6uwjh45tbb54fvp3pjdxnw2epxlgieea4na)
