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The rights to The Lord of the Rings and all things Middle-earth are complicated. This primer brings us up to date.
There’s a video that Lee Guinchard, CEO of Embracer Freemode, showed me that is helpful for those exploring the rights and licensing for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the works of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Embracer Freemode currently owns the rights previously held by Middle-earth Enterprises. And it has just licensed Peter Jackson and Warner Bros. to make The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum coming in 2026.
“This is a map. Not of a place. This is a map of intellectual property. More precisely, this is a map of the history of the copyrights, trademarks, and service marks for Middle-earth as described in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books,” the video begins.
It shows how John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a professor at Oxford University, started the vast franchise of Middle-earth. One day, while grading papers, the professor stopped and wrote down a single line, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
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He set that aside and started telling his children bedtime stories about the hobbit. He set that aside and came back to it. He started telling his children bedtime stories about the hobbit.
After more time, these stories turned into a manuscript. That manuscript found its way to publishers, Allen & Unwin, who, in 1937, published 1,500 copies of the book, The Hobbit.
A history of Tolkien games.
Those copies almost immediately sold out. The Hobbit turned into a massive hit. Allen & Unwin liked books that sell out. So they asked Tolkien if he could write something else about Middle-earth.
Ten years later, he gave them 9,250 pages. They knew that would be hard to sell. So they turned the manuscript into three books, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Together, the three books became known as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Time passed, and as Tolkien became older, he wanted to provide financial security for his family. In 1969, four years before his death, Tolkien made a deal with a movie stu …
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The rights to The Lord of the Rings and all things Middle-earth are complicated. This primer brings us up to date.
There’s a video that Lee Guinchard, CEO of Embracer Freemode, showed me that is helpful for those exploring the rights and licensing for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the works of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Embracer Freemode currently owns the rights previously held by Middle-earth Enterprises. And it has just licensed Peter Jackson and Warner Bros. to make The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum coming in 2026.
“This is a map. Not of a place. This is a map of intellectual property. More precisely, this is a map of the history of the copyrights, trademarks, and service marks for Middle-earth as described in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books,” the video begins.
It shows how John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a professor at Oxford University, started the vast franchise of Middle-earth. One day, while grading papers, the professor stopped and wrote down a single line, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
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He set that aside and started telling his children bedtime stories about the hobbit. He set that aside and came back to it. He started telling his children bedtime stories about the hobbit.
After more time, these stories turned into a manuscript. That manuscript found its way to publishers, Allen & Unwin, who, in 1937, published 1,500 copies of the book, The Hobbit.
A history of Tolkien games.
Those copies almost immediately sold out. The Hobbit turned into a massive hit. Allen & Unwin liked books that sell out. So they asked Tolkien if he could write something else about Middle-earth.
Ten years later, he gave them 9,250 pages. They knew that would be hard to sell. So they turned the manuscript into three books, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Together, the three books became known as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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