The New(ish) Tolkien Estate Copyright FAQ

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

At second glance, it comes across as protecting their income more so than Tolkien's legacy.

I think that's certainly the real point. How could they, on one hand, allow Amazon and others with deep pockets to pretty much write their own Tolkien-based (nominally, at least) fiction, and act threatened by someone like you or I making a tune to Sam's Troll Song, or transcribing a piece of current music into Quenya?

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I used to see the Estate as a bit of a Treebeard - perhaps a little old-fashioned and slow to react, but earnestly trying to protect the "paper forest". But this makes it sound like it's turned into a Sackville-Baggins.

I see Christopher as the last bastion guarding his father's legacy. Times have irrevocably changed.