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Tolkien himself considered revisiting Middle Earth for a new "uprising", but discarded it because it didn't and probably couldn't recapture the magic. Plus it probably felt too much like reality.
IIRC, he began writing another installment set in the 4th age, but abandoned it, because now that the main evils were dealt with, all that was left to happen was the world of men betraying each other, and it very quickly became a boring, depressing tale that just didn't need to exist.
So basically he was going to write game of thrones? Although he may have actually finished it…
And maybe dany wouldn't have kinda forgot about the iron fleet