'Lord of the Rings' TV Series Being Considered By Amazon

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WB and the Tolkein estate are said to be shopping the property around, with Amazon emerging as the early frontrunner.

Obvious misprint. I guarantee the "Tolkien Estate" is not shopping the property around, as "Tolkien Enterprises" owns the television/movie rights to LotR. And you'd have to pull the rights from Christopher Tolkien's cold, dead hands in order to get the Estate to agree to anything so fraught with the likely desecration of his father's works. Besides, C.Tolkien isn't even dead yet.