Reply To: The Taproom

Interesting developement with Christopher Tolkien. It’s long been known how tightly he guards his father’s legacy, and his full opposition to any film productions. I can understand this and can’t really blame him.

On the other hand, Tolkien’s work has grown over the last half-century into a more organic, living legacy. It has been interpreted, sculpted, gamed, written about, translated, filmed, acted, and endlessly debated It seems almost quaint, and certainly futile to try and control and contain all of that.

Legally speaking, does CT even have a case, with the rights to the Hobbit still being owned by Saul Zentz (Spelling?) And with no script yet written for film 2, I’m not sure how he could prove licensing infringement on the Silmarillion.

Now being allegedly owed 80 million, that’s another story, and he should pursue any money he is due to the fullest measure, but I see it as a seperate issue.

Finally, I leaves a slightly of-taste in my mouth that he is opposing a new film when TE continues to OK some of the truly wretched works that come out of GW.