A judge dismissed Demetrious Polychron’s lawsuit as frivolous, after he self-published an unauthorized Tolkien sequel and then attempted to sue the estate. The fanfiction writer who published an ...

HBO pitched the Tolkien estate on a "Lord of the Rings" TV series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It would have retold the story depicted in the film trilogy. The estate passed, even though it's ...

The Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer who sued Amazon and the Tolkien Estate, claiming spin-off show The Rings of Power infringed on his copyrighted novel The Fellowship of the King, has obviously ...

Jeff Bezos & the estate of J. R. R. Tolkien are being accused of ripping off a screenwriter’s work for their $1 billion series, RadarOnline.com has learned. According to court documents obtained by ...

Fan fiction has always thrived. Some of it is even turned into entire other, also successful franchises; the 50 Shades of Grey saga, you may recall, originated as a mere Twilight knockoff. But one ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is becoming one of Amazon’s biggest series, but it wasn’t the only company to pitch the Tolkien Estate for the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings. In fact, ...

Amazon and the Tolkien estate have emerged victorious in a multi-pronged legal battle over “The Lord of the Rings” franchise. In April author Demetrious Polychron published a book called “The ...

The Tolkien Estate and Amazon have been victorious in their court battle with an author who first published a book titled The Fellowship of the King and then demanded $250M after claiming Prime Video ...

The estate of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is suing to stop the publication of a novel in which he’s a character. If they succeed, they could make it very difficult for fiction writers to ...