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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
I think he was reading your post as claiming that profit is not a motivation for keeping books in copyright for a long time. Instead, it is about censorship. Meanwhile, the Tolkien estate has probably made more money from its copyrights in the last 15 years than it did in the first 50.
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The first LOTR movies came out in 2001, so I would say 20 years rather than 15.
The Tolkien trust is an odd situation. Christopher Tolkien, the primary editor of Tolkien's works, is the third son and is 94 years old now. I have no idea how things are split, but the Tolkien family tree is pretty wide spread and there are stories about family squabbles over movie rights and the like. Tolkien died in 1973. I would guess that everything published after Tolkien's death is probably tied to Christopher Tolkien.