In 1982 a little computer game called The Hobbit was introduced.
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According to The Minute MBA, the movies are the sixth highest grossing movie franchise of all time, making close to $4 billion. This book could not be released in English because the Tolkien estate does not approve, but fans everywhere have downloaded underground translated copies.ĭespite purists who are upset about the deletion of Tom Bombadil, fans who never even heard of the book were won over by Peter Jackson’s award winning film trilogy. It’s not a good idea to mess with the Tolkien’s literature, as one Russian author Kirill Eskovm found out when he was threatened by the estate because he wrote his version of Lord of the Rings, The Last Ringbearer, giving fans a glimpse of how the story would be told if Orcs were the good guys.
Online MBA averages the figure of new and used book sales to be $2.25 billion. There were opportunities for endless publications that explained and highlighted the settings and characters of “The Nerd Bible”, or Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The company had made lots of cash from JRR Tolkien’s work with Lord of the Rings movies in 2001,2002, and 2003 and then expanding The Hobbit into a trilogy over ten years later. They took a risk and had paid a hefty sum to acquire the rights to the movie tie-in volumes. publisher of Tolkien’s work for more than 60 years, has a lot to smile about. His son Christopher, who oversees the family business of wheeling and dealing agreements about his Dad’s masterpiece, and also edits and annotates the notes and stories his famous father left behind, Christopher, who is not a fan of the movies, perhaps because they didn’t directly make him a dime, balked at some of the merchandising, and successfully stopped a Lord of the Rings slot machine that was developed by Warner Brothers. It’s also been reportsedthat John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Tolkien was worth 500 million pounds when he died in 1978. In 2001, it was reported that Christopher was quite upset that the family would not be making cash directly from the movie deals. That’s before they sat down with Houghton Mifflin to discuss further rights stemming from future book sales. The Telegraph estimates that book sales alone for 2001 were up to 50 million pounds worldwide. The Tolkien estate, run by the author’s son, Christopher, is still making money hand over fist.
How much is the Lord of the Rings franchise worth? To ascertain anywhere near a close estimate, all of the limbs of the entertainment branch of the LOTR tree must be analyzed. From there revival video games, action figures and other merchandise has exploded around the world. But more recently the millennium movies rocked the box office with ticket sales, and the books gained a new Frodo following. Since the books publications, The Lord of the Rings has been making a solid stream of income.
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