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While the family still benefits from sales of the books, they signed away their say on any films based on "The Lord of the Rings" or "The Hobbit" when Tolkien sold the rights to MGM. But a new prequel or sequel could be another matter.
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Just a guess, but I'd say this is the legal understatement of the year. Unless someone over at the Tolkien family has a major change of heart, I bet they could keep New Line tangled up in rights disputes for years or decades. The sequel-or-prequel threat seems more to me like bluster to help
Hobbit negotiations with MGM.