What's wrong with this comment? The guy's telling us he thinks tweaking a
system is for young people. Fine, so he feels too old to go through
the whole rigmarole and frustration and he prefers a turnkey system.
Plenty of older people are like that. The funny thing here is that Ivan, former OLPC's security architect who wrote the article, is 23. I guess that "young" and "old" have different meanings nowadays.:)
Tolkein sold the rights to the film version of TLORT to pay a tax bill. At the time the film could not have been made, the technology didn't exist to do it well on a realistic budget.
What New Line seem to have forgotten is that the contract had a royalty clause.
Are you sure? I understand he sold it for a flat fee, no royalties involved (he never believed the film might be done).
As far as I know, there is the Tolkien Enterprises, based in US and controlling the film, stage and merchandise rights to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, which Tolkien sold in 1969 (for a flat fee, AFAIK, so no royalties are involved); and there is the Tolkien Estate, based in UK and owning the rights to everything else Tolkien ever wrote, including the Silmarillion and what was published as "The History of Middle-earth". The Estate is ran by JRR's son Christopher, and he is strongly against any derivative work (films etc) based on anything the Estate controls.
However, as far as I know again, the Estate cannot claim any damages by any work based on LotR and Hobbit, as those rights were sold by Tolkien himself. IANAL, so it's possible that there is some legal clause which might revert the sale after the author's death, but if it was so I'd guess that the Estate could have enforced that a long ago since the author's death in 1973.
In theory, the Tolkien Enterprises (current handler of the Hobbit and LOTR rights) could allow for an adaptation that would cover events described in the prologues and appendices to the LOTR, but they cover virtually nothing of those depicted in the Silmarillion. The appendices to LOTR deal mostly with the events of the Second ad Third Ages of the Sun (LOTR takes place at the end of the latter), while Silmarillion is mostly about the First Age. If they go for a non-Hobbit prequel, I expect an expansion to the story of Thorongil, Captain of Gondor, actually an incognito Aragorn who served at the court of Steward Ecthelion, father of Denethor. I also expect it to be as unfaithful to the original story as the Two Towers and the Return of the King movies were.
And one more thing: Silmarillion is only one book, not five. If you have read it, you'd know that of the five parts that the Wikipedia article refer to, the first two and the last two are just extended chapters, while most of the book is comprised of the central part, the Quenta Silmarillion.
It's all perfectly clear when you consider the whole point of Web. Web was originally designed for linking the published articles.
Forbidding someone to link to your page is like forbidding people to tell each other about an article they read in a paper, or even from borrowing them the paper.
Gee, you're right, I mixed them up. Seems that the subject of this thread applies to me pretty well...
Anyway, Saruman was still a Maia at that point, even without the ability to manifest his power. And his shadow (spirit) risind and beind dissipated by the wind reminiscents the dark cloud that appeared out of Barad-dur when the Ring was destroyed...
Actually, Tolkien somewhere said (wrote?) something along the lines that Tom was "a glitch in creation". Basically a representation of Arda itself.
In Arda, even things like individual trees or mountains had their own spirits -- not necessarily being stranded Maiar. No wonder that Arda might have a spirit of its own -- a most powerful, but slow and quite a passive one, that would fit nicely.
Actually, there is a detailed description, right there in the main narrative of the Lord of the Rings, of a Maia being killed. And no less than by a bunch of Hobbits!
The problem with countries like Slovenia (and my native Croatia) is that nothing of that would ever happen if there wasn't a major news piece about the service. If someone just came to the police and say "you know, there is such and such server in Slovenia" they would shrug them off; but as the media picked up the hype, someone saw it ad said "wow, we must do something about it" (even though that person probably had no idea what "it" was all about).
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Interesting. I always figured middle earth, at least from the map, was a map of Europe before......well, from a long time ago.
http://lalaith.vpsurf.de/Tolkien/Grid.html
As far as I know, there is the Tolkien Enterprises, based in US and controlling the film, stage and merchandise rights to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, which Tolkien sold in 1969 (for a flat fee, AFAIK, so no royalties are involved); and there is the Tolkien Estate, based in UK and owning the rights to everything else Tolkien ever wrote, including the Silmarillion and what was published as "The History of Middle-earth". The Estate is ran by JRR's son Christopher, and he is strongly against any derivative work (films etc) based on anything the Estate controls. However, as far as I know again, the Estate cannot claim any damages by any work based on LotR and Hobbit, as those rights were sold by Tolkien himself. IANAL, so it's possible that there is some legal clause which might revert the sale after the author's death, but if it was so I'd guess that the Estate could have enforced that a long ago since the author's death in 1973.
Which book? Clarke wrote the scenario based on his two stories, and the movie novelization came much later.
You meant Arthur C. Clarke, surely.
Except for one little detail: Tolkien sold the film, stage and merchandise rights of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to United Artists in 1968, while the rights to everything else still belong to the Tolkien Estate, which is adamantly against any further adaptations.
In theory, the Tolkien Enterprises (current handler of the Hobbit and LOTR rights) could allow for an adaptation that would cover events described in the prologues and appendices to the LOTR, but they cover virtually nothing of those depicted in the Silmarillion. The appendices to LOTR deal mostly with the events of the Second ad Third Ages of the Sun (LOTR takes place at the end of the latter), while Silmarillion is mostly about the First Age. If they go for a non-Hobbit prequel, I expect an expansion to the story of Thorongil, Captain of Gondor, actually an incognito Aragorn who served at the court of Steward Ecthelion, father of Denethor. I also expect it to be as unfaithful to the original story as the Two Towers and the Return of the King movies were.
And one more thing: Silmarillion is only one book, not five. If you have read it, you'd know that of the five parts that the Wikipedia article refer to, the first two and the last two are just extended chapters, while most of the book is comprised of the central part, the Quenta Silmarillion.
It's all perfectly clear when you consider the whole point of Web. Web was originally designed for linking the published articles. Forbidding someone to link to your page is like forbidding people to tell each other about an article they read in a paper, or even from borrowing them the paper.
Well, next time it's very cold outside I'll make sure that I wear several scarrows.
Gee, you're right, I mixed them up. Seems that the subject of this thread applies to me pretty well... Anyway, Saruman was still a Maia at that point, even without the ability to manifest his power. And his shadow (spirit) risind and beind dissipated by the wind reminiscents the dark cloud that appeared out of Barad-dur when the Ring was destroyed...
Actually, Tolkien somewhere said (wrote?) something along the lines that Tom was "a glitch in creation". Basically a representation of Arda itself. In Arda, even things like individual trees or mountains had their own spirits -- not necessarily being stranded Maiar. No wonder that Arda might have a spirit of its own -- a most powerful, but slow and quite a passive one, that would fit nicely.
Actually, there is a detailed description, right there in the main narrative of the Lord of the Rings, of a Maia being killed. And no less than by a bunch of Hobbits!
Make sure you check http://www.kapaljka.com/ ;)
The problem with countries like Slovenia (and my native Croatia) is that nothing of that would ever happen if there wasn't a major news piece about the service. If someone just came to the police and say "you know, there is such and such server in Slovenia" they would shrug them off; but as the media picked up the hype, someone saw it ad said "wow, we must do something about it" (even though that person probably had no idea what "it" was all about).