Inching closer to The Hobbit film

[William Cloud Hicklin]

the second film will be influenced by the foundation of "The Silmarillion" and "The History of Middle-earth Series"

Well, that redflags this source as totally unreliable immediately.

Christopher Tolkien owns those rights; will never, ever sell them, and even if he did Peter Jackson and New Line would be the last people on earth he'd let near them; and if any Silmarillion/HME material were used as the 'foundation' for a prequel his lawyers would be all over New Line faster than you can say 'Intellectual Property."

PJ has access to the JRR manuscripts and extensive notes as he did for the LOTR trilogy.

Poppycock. PJ had access to nothing (Christ, why would he need 'notes' ?) and he most assuredly doesn't have and won't get permission to access the originals in the Bodleian, nor, even if he did, could he do anything with them since they're copyright just as much as the published works.


It's bilge.