Yeah, he's made far more money out of Tolkien's work than Tolkien himself did.<P>Whether you believe there's any justice in that is a matter of opinion, I suppose.<P>I wonder whether, if he hadn't been able to obtain the filmrights & had had to make his own fantasy movie, he be any richer or better known now than he was 4 years ago. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing in the movies worth seeing is when Tolkien's own work makes it on screen. The 'stuff' of Jackson & the writers hangs off Tolkien's work, adding nothing, but is kept afloat by the scraps of Tolkien's genius which has survived.
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