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Readers here shouldn’t need to be reminded that the Tolkien Estate, through its company Middle-Earth Enterprises, is known to be extremely aggressive with its enforcement of intellectual property over anything remotely to do with The Lord of the Rings. The estate appears to operate under the notion that it has control over words via trademark law that it absolutely does not. And, where it does have those rights, it enforces them in draconian ways.
I love what Tolkien built, but I hate this part of his legacy. His “estate” should recognize what douchebags they are and just go away. But they won’t, because money.
This is overreach, but Tolkein’s hawkish lawyers prevented a crappy movie version of Lord of the Rings from being made (at least until the rights were given to Amazon).
I thought Amazon owned the majority of the trademark but I guess it’s really just the rights to make new film/media.