Amusing: Someone Wrote an Unauthorized Fanfic "Sequel" to The Lord of the Rings, and Then Sued Amazon for Copying It in Their own Fanfic "Rings of Power" Prequel

To be honest, I bet the plagiarized book is better than Rings of Power, which itself is just copying Tolkein plus a Diversity Hustle.

But they did pay a huge sum of money to make this piece of crap, so they're legally in the right.

Amazon and the Tolkien estate have emerged victorious in a multi-pronged legal battle over "The Lord of the Rings" franchise.

In April author Demetrious Polychron published a book called "The Fellowship of the King" which he claimed was a sequel to "The Lord of the Rings." He planned for the book to be the first in a seven-part series.

The Fellowship of the King, LOL.

The author then filed suit against both Amazon and the Tolkien estate, claiming the streaming series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" had borrowed from his sequel and infringed his copyright.

It can now be reported for the first time that a California judge summarily dismissed Polychron's lawsuit with prejudice in August.

The Tolkien estate then countersued the author for infringing on their copyright. A U.S. district judge found in the estate's favor this fall, granting them a permanent injunction to prevent Polychron from "copying distributing, selling, performing, displaying or otherwise exploiting" his book or its sequel, titled "The Two Trees." The author was also ordered to destroy all physical and electronic copies of the works.

The Two Trees, LOL. He's barely even trying. (The Two Trees are in fact an important part of the ancient history of Middle Earth -- I think they shed the equivalent of sunlight and starlight when the earth was flat and there was no sun.)

Closing the chapter on this saga, a California judge has now handed down a costs order, instructing Polychron to pay $134,637 in attorney's fees to both Amazon and Tolkien. In making the order, Judge Steven V. Wilson noted the "fantasticality" of the Polychron's claim for copyright protection given his book is entirely based on characters in "The Lord of the Rings," calling it "unreasonable" and "frivolous from the beginning."

Wait, what was the last book called? I hope it was "The Return of the Ring."

In Disney Dystopia news, the new Marvel woke content featuring a diverse disabled female shero looks so good you guys.

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