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Old 11-19-2017, 08:55 AM   #56
William Cloud Hicklin
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Originally Posted by Snowdog View Post
To add to my last post, the bar has been set admittedly low with the LotR movies, and especially The Hobbit movies. Being the rights were sold 48 years ago before there was a 'Tolkien Estate', the estate likely put a high price on this especially after the hassles they had with the films. Cash grab?maybe, but may as well get the $ beforehand instead of hassling over the 'profits'.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Except that the TV rights were not sold 48 years ago: they were sold in 2017.
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