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- 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.
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In the film rights to the LOTR that JRR Tolkien sold in the late sixties (up until recently owned by the Saul Zaentz Company) were included "matching rights" to the Silmarillion (and perhaps Unfinished Tales, I don't remember).
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.
Exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were sold by Tolkien himself to United Artists in 1969, reportedly for a very small amount, [3] [4] and are currently owned by Middle-earth Enterprises (formerly Tolkien ...
Feb 15, 2022 · We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left...
Cause Silmarillion rights expire in 2072 in most countries. Everything else they sold (LotR and appendices) expires from 2023 (in Canada) to 2043 (US and Uk). The estate will sell the IP rights to the Silmarillion eventually. But why do it now when Amazon were willing to pay a kings ransom for what has already been sold and will expire soon.
Feb 24, 2023 · Without one ring to rule them all, the rights for creators to tell stories in Middle-earth have long been a confusing mess—a mess that has only gotten more confusing when Embracer Group announced...
