Film Rights to First & Second Age

[Sauron the White]

William ... you said

I should point out of course that Party A took nothing resembling 'extraordinary additional steps.

Could you please name for me another situation in which an author sold film rights to something and then years later had it repackaged in a longer book length form and it had the effect of rendering some of the original film rights to lose their value?

I would call that extraordinary additional steps. But if you can find other instances to show that it is an ordinary business practice in the publishing or fim industry, I would be happy to read about them and change my mind and statements.

If UA were really interested in The Silmarillion film rights, they could have bought them from JRRT. They did not.

In point of fact, they did buy the only published Silmarillion based tales in 1969. They did just what you said they should have done.