The estate of the late “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien has prevailed in a lawsuit against a fan who claimed to have authored “the obvious pitch-perfect sequel” to the beloved fantasy trilogy, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, of the Central District of California, ruled last week in a summary judgment that the author — Demetrious Polychron — had violated copyright protections on works owned by the Tolkien Estate, ordering all physical and digital copies of the work to be destroyed.
The battle between Polychron and the Tolkien Estate actually began six years earlier — when the aspiring author had sent both a digital and physical copy of his book, “The Fellowship of the King” — to Simon Tolkien, the original author’s grandson. Polychron included a letter with the book, in which he explained he “didn’t have…
