Lack of respect displayed by Gimli

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Originally Posted by Quempel

I have to agree with STW on one issue...even if Tolkien, his children or his estate disapproved of adaptations of LoTR, it's too bad. He had no rights, his children have no rights and his estate has no rights to those changes. none. He sold those rights and thus sold all creative input on how the story was to be interpreted and changed. So if Tolkien was alive and did not like that Gimli sat in the stewards chair, he had no right to force PJ to make it his way. He freely sold those rights. Once he sold those rights, the story was no longer his, it belonged to the persons he sold the rights too. We may complain about how Tolkien would have hated Gimli sitting on the stewards chair, but that's all he could do was complain.

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Which is to completely miss the point of my post - which was that EVEN THOUGH Tolkien 'strongly disapproved' of adaptations of his work into other media he was still willing not only to assist the adaptors, but also to go along to see said adaptations & Carpenter notes that he saw Tolkien smile with approval as well as frown at some aspects of the adaptation.