Comments on: Apologies to Christopher Tolkien

By: @Gassalasca

@Gassalasca — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:19:22 +0000

Permission granted. Please post some samples of your best writing.

By: Gassalasca

Gassalasca — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:40:01 +0000

Can we stop calling Tolkien "the master"? He was really a mediocre writer at best.

By: Stu Horvath

Stu Horvath — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:32:16 +0000

Actually, the film and merchandise rights were sold in 1969 by J.R.R. Tolkien, long before billion dollar multimedia merchandizing or even ‘Intellectual Property’ was thing.

By: @traebarlow

@traebarlow — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:30:56 +0000

If someone mismanages their IP rights they only have themselves to blame. WTF does he think is going to happen when he gives full creative control of his property to the likes of Midway or some EA owned dev house… Shakespere? He acts like he had zero control over the sideshow that has been made of his family name.

I mean, he signed off on a fucking MMO that is a clone of EQ/WoW. While I may play that game from time to time it only takes a glance at the product to see they couldn't care less about Middle Earth or it's rich culture lore and history.

Example: Trolls wander open roads in broad daylight, Mithril is a cheap commodity for some of the worst items in the game; the primitive hill-men make better equipment out of rocks tied to sticks simply because some dim-witted company man decided to base content updates on what Blizzard did with their franchise.

The thing is, other than the movie-games for ps2 this is about the best work any publisher has done with the Tolkien IP.

Maybe Christopher should, I dunno, use some of his money to hire his own content creators and be more involved in his father's work (what's left of it) instead of whoring off his work to the highest bidder. As it is I don't take even an ounce of pity on this man. He hocked off his family's legacy to buy shit and is now pissy because the people he sold it too didn't care about it as much as he did. WTF did he expect? Sorry Christopher but you made your bed, now you get to sleep in it.

By: @Triphibian

@Triphibian — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:44:36 +0000

That's it. Get it all out.

By: Hesterfuld

Hesterfuld — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:41:27 +0000

Oh good. For a moment there I didn't think Gus would be able to find a way to talk about himself in sophistic terms like he usually does.

Dodged a bullet there.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:30:14 +0000

My reaction to Chris Tolkien's whining was, "Oh, another bourgeois elderly Englishman complaining about pop culture. How original." Pretty much how I feel about it. Oh if only he could find a place free from the grubby paws of the hoi polloi and their… non-noble sensibilities. Anyway, Chris Tolkien isn't JRR, so he doesn't really have any more weight on the matter. The fact that he decried the "action" in the movies? Makes my mind boggle. Does he just skip over all the, I don't know, killing and war in favor of some gentrified, home-style gabfest of noble men quibbling about the croquet hoops? /rant