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"Currently we have the representatives of owners of franchise series changing their pronouncements about which derivative works are canonical and which ones aren’t. Generally the owners include works currently being produced but some years later may suddenly declare some of these non-canonical."
Just consider the nightmare of continuity breaks and ret-conning in the DC Comics universe, which has gone through two (or three) iterations of "parallel universes" collisions in order to try, without real success, to generate a single "history."
(Pop quiz: are Batman and Robin now Bruce and Tim, or Dick and Damian?)
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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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