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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
davem .. believe me my friend I never confused you with someone who cares.
But you did say this:
Perhaps he does. But the ability to utilize those rights has been diminished by the actions of CT and the Estate in putting before the public a competing and more complete version of The Silmarallion. Is that ethical for the Estate, or anyone for that matter to engage in a business practice that has that effect without some degree of working things out with the person who held those rights before they were diminished?
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You agree that Zaentz has the same rights now that he always had. You have not put forward any evidence to suggest that Christopher Tolkien by publishing the Silmarillion was engaged in a malicious act to try and reduce the value of those rights. In the Introduction to "Unfinished Tales" CR Tolkien discusses his reasons for publishing more of his father's work after the latter's death and in summary his reason (as I understand it) is to make available information on the "unexplained vistas" referred to in the then published work of Tolkien because many during the author's lifetime had asked for such (botanists wanting more exact descriptions of the
mallorn, historians wanting information of the politics of Gondor, etc)
I don't see any onus on Christopher Tolkien to work anything out with Mr. Zaentz.