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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
My argument though is that their choice accomplishes less twisting. If you are portraying the FA directly, then do it FA style. Don't make 3rd Age rhymes and riddles into a reality no one will recognize. Of course, we might rather that they did not touch the FA at all. But assuming they do anyways... would you really rather they depicted Valinor without the Two Trees cosmology? In my mind that would have been the much greater evil.
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Yes. I would rather they depicted the sun and moon in existence at the same time as the Two Trees as per LotR and The Hobbit.
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As for rights, wasn't there a clause somewhere that they couldn't contradict published material?
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Not having seen the contract, I don't know for sure.
My understanding is that they can, on a case by case basis, get permission to use some items from the posthumously published works (e.g. the Numenor map), as long as it does not contradict what they have the rights to (Hobbit, LotR).