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Of course now all you're arguing is IT'S NOT FAIR!
Well, what's 'fair' about claiming that a 'significant part' of the film license you bought was in fact a one-paragraph footnote completely disregarded at the time, and of no value whatsoever until this evil Junior Tolkien attached value to the Silmarillion name?
What's 'fair' about making many, many times more money off those derivative rights than the original creator of Middle-earth and his heirs have received in fifty years?
And what's 'fair' about shamelessly profiting from action figures and much worse which the original author would have committed seppuku before permitting, had he but realized that the sharpies from UA had a very, very flexible idea of the term 'merchandising?'
Cry me a river. Saul Zaentz was a two-bit no-class chiseler when he ripped off John Fogerty, and nothing's changed.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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