Christopher Tolkien at it again....

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I cannot credit the Estate with perfect judgement 100% of the time, but at least I think their intentions are on the pure side.

I side with Zil here. It is ridicuuos how many things were stopped because of the Estate, but I see their side too. Their "protection of Tolkien's words" is quite understandable, because quite a lot of people see LOTR the way PJ made it, and maybe even worse. (The Estate should thank PJ for that.)

If I would say "hobbit" to a random person on the street, I bet that the image s/he will have in mind is an idiotic hairy drunken midget (unless they've really read the books). That is not what Tolkien means hobbits to be! This applies to just about everything. It's not really the Estate's fault if it is over-paranoid.