Recent content by Erunamo

Thank you for that lecture. If you had bothered reading my entire post you would have seen that I actually said exactly that after the following quote. Oh well... :-) I would like to see a source on that, because Tolkien himself wrote (letters 198): "As far as I am concerned personally, I...

What you - and the creators of the mod - are arguing is fair use. While I tend to agree with this, it is a difficult thing to prove in court. Having no profit off of something doesn't automatically make it fair use (if you are not familiar with the topic, read the Wiki page on it - it's actually...

WB had nothing to do with it. Middle-Earth Enterprises / Saul Zaentz Company owns the worldwide marketing rights and brand names. The last thing I read was about a month ago that SZC would issue a license to "The Hobbit" cafe for 100$/year and Fry and McKellen said that they would pay for the...

Well, of course it is. Tolkien himself sold the film and merchandising rights. If he didn't want merchandising to appear around his works, he could have kept those rights in the first place. Or, in fact, adopt a "free to use" license in the first place. While he wanted other people to be...

Just to chime in pretty quick Tolkien Estate and Tolkien Enterprises/Middle Earth enterprises are two different entities and the "who-holds-which"-copyrights is fairly confusing. Tolkien Estate is actually run by Christopher Tolkien and his wife (probably their son as well now) and they...