Film Rights to First & Second Age

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Sauron:

You're stalling. We've been over this again and again and again: the facts are stipulated; we're arguing the law as it applies to the facts.

Why don't you come out and tell us what claim or rights you think Zaentz/New Line have in The Silmarillion? And is your position any different from the one you started with,

they own the films rights to that material and anything published later and made known to the public can be used by them as well since it only details material which they already owned and had use of?