Lord of the Rings Fanfic Writer Sues Amazon, Tolkien Estate For $250M

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Lord of the Rings fanfic writer sues Amazon, Tolkien Estate for $250M:

. Now, Polychron is arguing that the Amazon TV show lifts elements from his novel., which has seen documents pertaining to the suit, Polychron alleges that characters and storylines he created for his book “compose as much as one-half of the 8-episode series,” and that in some cases the show “copied exact language” from his book. However, the claims seem spurious. For instance,

that both his book and the show feature a hobbit named Elanor, with the Elanor in his book being the daughter of Samwise Gamgee, while the Elanor featured inis a Harfoot. Images purporting to be the lawsuit circulating online include a host of other circumstantial connections or similarities to back up Polychron’s argument that the writers of

 

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