The estate of the famed fantasy novelist J.R.R. Tolkien accused author Demetrious Polychron of writing and selling an unauthorized sequel of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, according to a copyright lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court.
The lawsuit comes after Polychron filed his own copyright suit against the Tolkien Trust and Amazon Inc. in April, alleging that they infringed the copyrights to his sequel after the tech company released the TV series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”
The estate first learned that Polychron was selling the sequel called “The Fellowship of the King” online ...
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