>From: "Alec A. Burkhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
>
> > At 01:46 PM 9/8/00 -0700, Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >No one was being kind to TSR, WOTC, or Disney when they mined work in
> > >the public domain for their creations ...
> >
> > But Jack Vance, J.R.R. Tolkien and others were more than kind, don't
> > you think? :-).
>
>Since the Tolkien estate forced the removal of those items which Tolkien
>could claim ownership of (Hobbit for example), how were they being kind?
According to an Arneson interview I read recently, there was no "forcing" -
Tolkien politely requested, and they politely acquiesced. The "forcing"
part is a myth, rather like the same myth about Lovecraft etc in the
original Deities & Demigods.
Faust
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