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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SageMinerve" data-source="post: 8196917" data-attributes="member: 69067">There are two licensees for Tolkien Legendarium.Middle-earth Enterprises own the rights to Lord of the Rings (including the appendices, very important!) and The Hobbit. Everything else in the Legendarium is owned by the Tolkien Estate (controlled by Christopher Tolkien's descendants).The Amazon series license comes from the Tolkien Estate. They can use everything from the Legendarium except LotR and Hobbit.The One Ring was produced by Sophisticated Games and published by C7 during the 1st edition of the game.There was a decision about a year ago from C7 and Sophisticated Games to go their separate ways. No one really knows the reason, so I'm not going to speculate as to why that happened.So Sophisticated Games went and got another publisher for the 2nd edition. Enters Free League.Middle-earth Enterprises is very careful with the license, and they delineate quite clearly what each company doing business with them can and cannot do.For example, Games Workshop is the company that holds the rights to gaming miniatures for LotR and Hobbit. Because of this, Sophisticated games can't produce miniatures for the RPG, even if they and Free League wanted to.Same with the Legendarium. Sophisticated Games can only use material from LotR and Hobbit. Anything and everything else is off limits.For example, Aüle couldn't be mentionned by name in TOR, because that name only appears in works other than LotR and Hobbit.So TOR can only be placed, chronologically, between the beginnning of Hobbit and LotR's end, outside of details mentionned in LotR appendices. For example, they can refer to Aragorn's time as Thorongil because it is mentionned in the Appendices. And they did in 1st edition, in the Rohan source book.</blockquote>

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