Most of the EU stuff is absolute ****, except for, of course, the Bane books, which I definitely want more of , so no, I don't really, unless it gets better. That having been said, yes, I do want to like this stuff, but nothing will ever recapture the pure win-ness of the original trilogy, but if something does, count me in.
Oh, and, like the above, this partially applies to LotR, but anything Tolkien wrote is automatically among the greatest books ever written.