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Given that The Lord of the Rings was originally published without its appendices, I wonder whether legally speaking they form a part of of the "The Lord of the Rings" for the purposes of film rights ( NB This is not an instruction to any of our legal eagles hoping to rack up billable time). I would doubt it since it would mean that the outline of The Hobbit was sold with LOTR as part of the Appendices, and I seem to recall the film rights were sold separately.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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