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Mithalwen - thank you for that explaination. So if we remove the money from the bequest, that still leave some 3 million pounds or 6 million US dollars in increased revenues from pre-film years. And then there is also the continued level of higher sales and revenues from pre-film years. Both figures are significant and substantial.
These funds do NOT represent all the money paid to the Tolkien Estate from book royalties do they? Perhaps I am not again reading this correctly and there are other explainations, but it seems that the films - regardless of how they were accepted by CT and family - did put a great deal of additional revenues into the pockets of CT, the Estate, their Trust and other family members.
That was my point in the previous post.
We are led to believe that CT does not approve of the movies. One can even say that CT would rather the films had never been made and the only version we have of Middle-earth would be the one his father constructed in his books. That is fine. My point was simply that it is an interesting stance for Christoper to adopt since he has benefitted significantly from the films themselves.
The phrase "having your cake and eating it too" applies here. Of course, once you eat your cake, you can no longer have it for it is gone. That is the irony of the situation. CT has found a way to have his cake (spurn the films and their vision of his fathers Middle-earth) and eat it at the same time (enjoy the revenues from vastly increased book sales due to the films popularity). No small accomplishment.
The webpage of the Tolkien Estate says they have no plans to sell film or other rights to COH. I take them at their word.
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