generalfrevious said:
... ...a greedy bastard who bashes the system for the very thing he is guilty of. The Hobbit/Lord Of the Rings means nothing to him except as an intellectual property he can milk to build his second mansion.
While I usually don't think building narratives about creators is a useful way to analyze work, it might be worth noting that Peter Jackson still lives in the same house he lived in before starting LOTRs.