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Exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were sold by Tolkien himself to United Artists in 1969, reportedly for a small amount, [3] [4] and are currently owned by Middle-earth Enterprises (formerly Tolkien Enterprises), inc., an Embracer Group subdivision, [5 ...
Lembas Capital is a San Francisco-based investment firm named after the Elven waybread that appears in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. The company invests in both public equity and private equity. [26] The Tolkien Estate is the legal body
J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sold the film, stage and merchandising rights of those works to United Artists in 1969. They in turn sold them to The Saul Zaentz Company in 1976, which in turn formed Tolkien Enterprises, now named Middle-earth Enterprises, in 1977. [4] United Artists retained distribution ...
He also awarded lawyers’ fees of $134,000 (£106,000) to the Tolkien estate and Amazon, which produced last year’s prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, in connection with ...
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Valar Ventures originally spun out of Thiel Capital, [2] Peter Thiel's global parent company based in San Francisco, and is now headquartered near Madison Square in Manhattan. [3] The firm's namesake is the Valar of J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium , who are god-like immortal spirits that chose to enter the mortal world to prepare it for their ...
The Tolkien Trust is a British charity founded in 1977 [1] that manages the money received from J. R. R. Tolkien's estate (the Tolkien Estate). [2] Specifically, the trust enables its trustees, the members of Tolkien's family, to donate regularly to whichever causes they may choose. The trust states that such charitable causes include the "arts ...
Neoclassical museum-quality estate or artful English-style green home? This week's #housepornthurs was a landslide: Nearly all of our voters opted for the opulent Neoclassical estate in San Francisco.