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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The publisher took technically legal (if dubiously ethical) advantage of an error on the part of of Tolkien's British publisher, Unwin and Allen. They subsequently made a payment to Tolkien of monies earned on that edition to attempt to defuse the adverse publicity stemming from the act.
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If you're talking about Ace Books, what they did in printing a completely unauthorised paperback edition of LOTR was pretty shameful, IMHO, and of
extremely dubious legality. Such people don't deserve to have their "name suppressed".