Timeline for Has Tolkien's estate ever sold the rights to adaptations of any Tolkien works?
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| Nov 15, 2017 at 14:20 | comment | added | RobertF | @ibid Woohoo, now that C. Tolkien has resigned, I can begin writing my sequel, Lord of the Rings 2: The Return of Morgoth. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 6:54 | comment | added | ibid | Brian Selby said in Mallorn that the Radio rights still belong to the publishers and weren't owned by Saul Zaentz. I'd guess TV would be similar. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 1:19 | comment | added | ibid | The recent Amazon deal is likely linked to Christopher's resignation two months ago | |
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| S Nov 14, 2017 at 13:17 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | Discussion on edits to this post has been moved to chat; please continue there instead so we don't keep pinging Jason here. | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 0:18 | history | edited | Jason Baker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | Narusan | That’s sad news, that Amazon will be creating a new TV series. I feel like it can’t live up to the expectations. | |
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| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:09 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @OrangeDog Needless to say, that is incorrect. Sierra (through Vivendi, their parent company) had a deal with Middle-earth Enterprises (then Tolkien Enterprises). I'm not intimately familiar with The White Council, but I suspect the author is making the common mistake of conflating Tolkien Enterprises with the Tolkien Estate | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | OrangeDog | @ibid by the same source, the estate granted a license to Sierra as well. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | ibid | According to Polygon, the cancelled game Lord of the Rings: The White Council had the rights to Silm and UT. (They don't give a source.) | |
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| May 26, 2016 at 19:33 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @armadillo Bear in mind that when Tolkien sold the film rights, he actually sold the film, stage, and merchandising rights. Shadow of Mordor completely fits within those rights, so long as it doesn't reference anything from any other printed Tolkien work. As far as I know, the Tolkien Estate has never licensed an adaptation, though they do seem friendlier to scholarly-type works (like History of The Hobbit) | |
| May 26, 2016 at 19:28 | comment | added | Molag Bal | Have they ever licensed anything? This article makes it sound like Shadow of Mordor got released under the film rights somehow. Or maybe that's a separate question... | |
| May 26, 2016 at 17:51 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @FuzzyBoots Indeed. It illustrates to me just how much control you lose when you outright sell your intellectual property rights, making it all the more unlikely that the Estate (as led by CT, anyway) would be willing to do so | |
| May 26, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | I personally found it enlightening to know that the Tolkien himself brokered the only deal. The rest has been that single company and its sub-licensing. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 17:38 | history | answered | Jason Baker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |