skyjedi2005 said:
If the rights revert to Christopher Tolkien not only will the 2 hobbit films never get made. But their will be no more home video releases on blu ray or dvd of a trilogy that was produced in Breech of contract with the story authors heirs.

But in this case Christopher Tolkien did not like the artistic License Jackson and New Line made to his fathers books. He believes they were butchered.

Amazingly enough Simon Tolkien, Christopher Tolkiens eldest son from a previous marriage who never talks to his father and has a strained relationship with him Is one of Jackson's supporters and thinks Jackson kept the heart of his Grandfathers tales intact.Turns out that The Silmarillion and all its parts have been protected by being sullied by Hollywood. These works are protected except for the bare mention of them in the LotR, or the Hobbit plot,or lotr appendices.

Well that's sad, I hope Christopher realizes with the amount of content in the original LOTR books it would take atleast 6 movies to cover the material if his gripe is they didn't tell the entire story, which they did leave out the whole War in the North with the elves and dwarfs attacking Dol GulDor, but really it didn't fit with the story of the Fellowship. So to sum it up I rather enjoyed Lord of the Rings, the trilogy is one of my favorite stories ever (and not to incite a Clerks II type of bashing back and forth) I still prefer the Star Wars Trilogy. I just need to get me that Blu Ray player or PS3 for christmas and I'm ready.