Bret Devereaux

We still don't know what orcs really eat - raiding, maybe, while in the Hobbit the goblins fish underground (and there's a mention of "pits of snakes" which I fancied to imply some form of raising them for food). One assumes orcs got their food from Nurn.

*Mordor orcs. Isengard in turn was probably supported by Dunland; that maggoty bread had to come from somewhere! Maybe if Tolkien had ever made up his mind about orcs we could have had more to go off in terms of a post-Sauron orc culture.

I desperately want to see a story from a more humanizing perspective of the Haradrim, forced conscription into serving Sauron by corrupt leaders (as is implied in the books), internal resistance and the ensuing refugee crisis.

And how global politics play out when you get remembered as people who joined Sauron (regardless of the circumstances or if you were resisting) because there are a bunch of nigh-immortals around, including on Gondor's throne. What would a Middle Earth Renaissance look like?