I will only add one statement to the above comment
humans are the only living creatures that truly enjoy leisure. All others have little time to relax, even if they are predators and not prey. Big cats and dolphins are the ones that are mostly known to the common people (there are others) and some primates.
The animals are too busy to find the food, to escape death (and to become other animals' dish
), find a mate, find a shelter. They don't have time to play
The One Ring in either versions
.
And this is only a modern time achievement, I mean as a species (let's rememebr that until recently only kings and nobles, priests and monks, could enjoy relaxation, wellness, reading, live bands and menestrels and so on). Once the concept presented by Pestalozzi to Napoléon and implemented by the latter bore fruits, and thus everyone besides church members and nobles could read, it's ONLY THEN when printing and writing and managing writers became a business. Monks has their own "duplication services" (low- grade monks that copied by hand a book in 10 years), and those that wrote a book realy had something to communicate to the humanity.
Side note: Everything that eventually goes into the mainstream (large basis of users) will eventually become the battlefield for "smart investors" and every hobby goes immediately expensive because of their involvement.
I wonder how the bulk of the writers will earn their daily bread, in the true sense of the word, if nobody wants to read their "nothings" any longer?!... As you can see, this is one reason why the studios/publishers want their rights so long protected, good works, created before a writer had been forced to issue a book a year, are in danger of becoming out of their monopole. No publisher or studio will ever live longer than his/her copyrights, thus the policy is a "cooperation" one (the oldest form of cooperation against the masses remains the church). Why the masses do not "cooperate" by itself? Because the concept of masses imply disorder by definition, while cooperation means a common goal. This explains a lot, for instance also why a handful of determined people can get the control of a country via putch, revolutions and stuff and the masses cannot do anything against or about it.