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- Unlike The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the film rights for The Silmarillion were never sold and still remain with the Tolkien family.
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Mar 22, 2022 · Amazon doesn’t actually have the rights to The Silmarillion. This means the series will be based on The Appendices at the end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Which, admittedly, does overlap in stories between the two books, but if it is mentioned in The Silmarillion and not in the Appendices, it is off-limits.
- Elizabeth Dresdow
Dec 10, 2020 · There has been no indication whatsoever since 1977, when The Silmarillion was first published, that Christopher Tolkien as literary executor to his father’s legacy would be willing to sell rights to this book.
Unlike The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the film rights for The Silmarillion were never sold and still remain with the Tolkien family. Further, The Silmarillion was compiled, edited and published posthumously by Christopher Tolkien.
Tolkien Estate still owns the right. The Tolkien Estate retains those rights, but I have no doubt in my mind that a day will come when the directors are so far delineated from Tolkien and his late children that they will sell off the rights of all his works for good or ill.
May 9, 2019 · Tolkien eventually married Edith, as the film shows, and the two had four children: John Francis, Michael Hilary (named after Tolkien's brother Hilary), Christopher John, and Priscilla Mary...
- Danielle Burgos
The estate very specifically decided to sell the rights to a limited TV series because it carves around those rights and limited the sale to LOTR and the Hobbit because it does not trigger the matching rights (now held by Embracer) to The Silmarillion or any other material.
May 13, 2024 · Around this time, the owners of Middle-earth Enterprises, like Professor Tolkien before them, wanted to provide a financial legacy to their families. So they decided to sell the rights to Middle-earth. In 2022, Embracer Group’s Freemode bought Middle-earth Enterprises for $395 million.
