Christopher Tolkien at it again....

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by davem

THE SKY IS FALLING & A MARTIAN ASSAULT FLEET HAS LANDED IN TIMES SQUARE!!!!!

And you could hardly have got more worked up over that.

Seriously: what do you think you're proving, here, davem? Of course nobody (well, barring a few alien-conspiracy nuts) is going to put "X sues Y" on the same level of improbability as "Martian invasion". But that says nothing about the character or history of either X or Y.

As a matter of fact, I do agree that the Tolkien Estate– and copyright holders in general– are quite often heavy-handed about protecting their "property"– but the particular argument you're using here doesn't support that at all. In fact, I have to tell you that, whatever your intention may be, it actually *looks* rather like you're just trying a bit of damage-control.