LoTR Lawsuit Threatens Hobbit Production

eyrieowl writes "J.R.R.'s heirs are suing for royalties on the LoTR films. Apparently they haven't gotten any money due to some creative accounting. Peter Jackson ought to understand...he had to sue the studio for much the same reason. As for The Hobbit? FTFA: 'Tolkien's family and a British charity they head, the Tolkien Trust, seek more than $220 million in compensation...[and]...the option to terminate further rights to the author's work.'"

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Re:It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazar

[Rooked_One]

wow - so yea... no more posting on slashdot while on major cold medicines... if only there were a delete feature.

Re:Bad news all around

[jedidiah]

Yup, just like every slave owner was perfectly within his rights to beat his slaves to death.

Would you have cheerfully joined the (mandatory) posse to track down a runaway slave?

LotR

[AP31R0N]

"The" doesn't deserve capitalization any more than "of". You wouldn't capitalize the in the book title either. For abbreviations show all articles and prepositions as lower case. If you have an article or preposition at the beginning of the abbreviation, show it as lower case. Of Mice and Men would be oMaM.

By showing articles in lower case you give a clue to the reader that the letter represents something small and structural, rather than a 'real' word. LoTR would suggest Lord of Token Rings.

Side note: Not all abbreviations are acronyms. It's like rectangles and squares. All squares are rectangle, but not all rectangles are squares. An acronym is a TYPE of abbreviation SPOKEN as a word, rather than spelled. SCUBA is, CIA is not. Some twat blithers, "but, but, the dictionary says...". Dictionaries record how words are USED (correctly or otherwise), not just what they mean. If acronym means abbreviation, why have two words? How do we communicate the lost specificity of the word acronym?

Here's where you call me a pedant/prescriptivist/grammar nazi so you don't have to learn.