I don't think anyone has an objection to none canonical ideas, all our games have them. Mine are full of them. Just Mongoose second Age stuff doesn't do it for me. Like you say ygwv.
Back to Balazaar. Did he wear trousers or a skirt....?
Very true. But I find it hard when the stuff is so awful. I like working from canon first myself and listening to all of you lots non canonical ideas, which are far better.
I once had Dragonewts travelling around the Eldar Wilds in the Second Age on the back of a very large dinosaur. They had a road plinth on it's back.
Though that game was a genre mash up as they were agents of the Culture's Special Circumstances. The Sun was their cloaked space ship.