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It was supposed to be what a fan described as a "loving homage" to his hero, author JRR Tolkien, and to "The Lord of the Rings," which he called "one
Ruling that the fan’s unauthorized book violated copyright protections, a judge barred him from distributing it and ordered him to destroy all electronic and physical copies of it.
The author of a self-described sequel to The Lord of the Rings has to cough up almost $150k in legal fees to the Tolkien estate and Amazon.
Demetrious Polychron had been a devoted fan of the Lord of the Rings novels since his childhood. In a 2017 letter to Simon Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson, Polychron professed his
After the Tolkien estate ignored him, Demetrious Polychron published his Lord of the Rings fanfic, which he says Amazon ripped off for The Rings of Power.