The article also talks about how the second generation Tolkiens – Simon and Royd – truly like the films. It seems that Christopher Tolkien has truly cut himself off from the rest of the family.
“This is fantastic. It’s utterly unbelievable because I never believed that my great-grandfather’s trilogy could ever be dramatised,” said a misty-eyed Royd Tolkien.
“I never saw the films as a threat and I’ve enjoyed the movies for what they are, but I crossed my father on a Tolkien issue and if you’re after someone who can explain the estate’s attitude, I can’t. I’m cut off,” said 44-year-old Simon. “I haven’t spoken to my father except in an annual business meeting context for the past four years.”
2 responses to “Sunday Herald discusses the PJ / Tolkien estate clashes”
CT doesn’t get it. Does he think his father, who sold the rights for films in the first place, was too addlebrained to figure out that some alterations would need to be made? And to cut off his own son and grandchildren because they don’t walk lockstep behind his control shows that he is, tragically, growing more Orcish with age.