Ok I must be just not getting it. How can the Tolkien Estate stop the movie? They don't have the rights to the movie at all, but only rights to the profits from the movie...is this correct in my assumption?
And not that I believe NL wouldn't rip off the Estate, since they have a track record of ripping off everyone else. I am just wondering what legal leg they can stand on to claim stoppage of the The Hobbit, because it seems to me they don't have any rights to if the movie gets made, but only have rights to the profit of the movie, if and when it gets made.
My other question is this, once Christopher dies, who will be the 'Estate' that will stop the selling of the movie rights to the Sil? Because it seems that once he dies that the other children might not be such 'sticks in the mud' as it were.
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