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Well I have HoME and I am profoundly grateful to Christopher Tolkien for sacrificing so much time which he might have usedfor his own research in to making all the archive available - I very much doubt that the hard-core buyers are numerous enough to generate the cash bonanza Snow dog seems to think.. especially when you think how long it all took.... I mean the publishers clearly took the films as an opportunity to republish and so I have finally been able to complete my "set" and get the "Road" - but I very much doubt that CT had much say in that .... from the articles I have read it would be hard to find someone less commercially minded...
If anyone is cashing in I would say it was Simon - using his name and the films and washing dirty linen in public to publicise his book.... somehow I don't think if you are genuine about a reconciliation with a family member it is most helpful to go about it by bitching about them in the tabloid... he clearly has issues....
As a point of fact it was Royd Tolkien, Michael's grandson who was a Ranger of Ithilien in the films...wearing Viggo's wig!...... From what he said in the interview it is not as dysfunctional as it has been made out.... he got involved in the film but understands why Christiopher was uninterested ... there are about 20 Tolkien descendants and they all work even if they don't absolutely need to .... I am not sure if Priscilla is still alive.... Fr John Tolkien died a couple of years ago. Only Michael and Christopher had children......
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