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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
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CT's attitude reminds me somewhat of what happens when an old home is sold. Whether you feel happy or sad about leaving the place behind, anything the new owners do will upset you, and do something they will. Even if the films had been more faithful it may have been like driving past and seeing new windows in and the trees chopped down. In one respect he should be happy as it was as likely as not they would have razed it to the ground and rebuilt it (John Lennon or John Boorman had some insane ideas for example). Unfortunately, there's not a thing you can do about it.
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Join Date: May 2004
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I thought it was income tax he needed the cash to pay - I am sure the details have been discussed here before a while back. Sure I ended up digging up the legislation.. not that I am obsessive or anything. Idea that it was on the lines on having to pay a very hight rate of tax before he received the income. 2K wouldn't have bought Tolkien's bungalow in Branksome Chine even though it wasn't very big and was spectacularly ugly. Since selling the rights wouldhave increased the value of the estate I can't see it would help with death duties. I suppose the share of profits might have been hoped to cover them if Tolkien didn't anticipate the films actually being made in his life time... though given the longevity in his family apart friom his parents he perhaps hoped for longer than he got. But what I have read on the issue before implied an immediate need rather than inheritance tax planning.
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A Mere Boggart
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The Hobbit panel is happening right now at Comic Con and a fan just asked Jackson if he would make a film of the Silmarillion. Jackson said there was "almost no chance" as "the Tolkien estate hold the rights and the Tolkien estate does not like the films".
Very topical.
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