Your process isn't actually all that difficult. One of my favorite game IPs made a language, then cultures, the whole Tolkien process. Rrha paks erra chys hymmnos mea.
But... It's not Tolkien. It's great. It's not him. If you asked Picasso to emulate the brushstrokes of Raphael, he probably could... But when creating an original work, that's not what he does. And if he were told to, you'd be able to tell that it was someone not Raphael who did it. It's not just a matter of skills, it's also a matter of personal style and taste.
Tolkien did not play aloof god and just make a world and watch it, his style was one of hyper-observation. He would spend two pages describing a cellar door. He would stop all flow of action, narration, and plot, in order to have several chapters dedicated to minor politicking.
The way he wrote, would fail as a movie or show. 100%. It just can't translate. But we still got some awesome movies out of it. But the crux of the issue on the new material will be this: Can the writers respect an Old White Man (tm)'s work and world, while building within it the aspects that made people respect and love it?
What they need isn't formal authors or woke politicians. Ironically, what they need is Fanfiction specialists. But they're not going to realize that.
Your process isn't actually all that difficult. One of my favorite game IPs made a language, then cultures, the whole Tolkien process. Rrha paks erra chys hymmnos mea.
But... It's not Tolkien. It's great. It's not him. If you asked Picasso to emulate the brushstrokes of Raphael, he probably could... But when creating an original work, that's not what he does. And if he were told to, you'd be able to tell that it was someone not Raphael who did it. It's not just a matter of skills, it's also a matter of personal style and taste.
Tolkien did not play aloof god and just make a world and watch it, his style was one of hyper-observation. He would spend two pages describing a cellar door. He would stop all flow of action, narration, and plot, in order to have several chapters dedicated to minor politicking.
The way he wrote, would fail as a movie or show. 100%. It just can't translate. But we still got some awesome movies out of it. But the crux of the issue on the new material will be this: Can the writers respect an Old White Man (tm)'s work and world, while building within it the aspects that made people respect and love it?
What they need isn't formal authors or woke politicians. Ironically, what they need is Fanfiction specialists. But they're not going to realize that.