Sunday, December 07, 2003

More on "action figures"

Has the Tolkien Estate exercised tasteful restraint in licensing Lord-of-the-Rings merchandise? You be the judge.

1 comment:

Felix said...

Fiend @ 3:38PM | 2003-12-16| permalink

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Felix @ 10:07PM | 2004-01-15| permalink

It seems I erred in blaming this on the Tolkien Estate. According to Douglas Anderson's essay in "Meditations on Middle-Earth", the licensing of movie tie-ins is controlled by a different business entity. See excerpt posted at http://greenbooks.theonering.net/tributes/files/anderson_med.html

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