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Old 06-13-2022, 04:31 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Galadriel55 View Post
At second glance, it comes across as protecting their income more so than Tolkien's legacy.
I think that's certainly the real point. How could they, on one hand, allow Amazon and others with deep pockets to pretty much write their own Tolkien-based (nominally, at least) fiction, and act threatened by someone like you or I making a tune to Sam's Troll Song, or transcribing a piece of current music into Quenya?

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I used to see the Estate as a bit of a Treebeard - perhaps a little old-fashioned and slow to react, but earnestly trying to protect the "paper forest". But this makes it sound like it's turned into a Sackville-Baggins.
I see Christopher as the last bastion guarding his father's legacy. Times have irrevocably changed.
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