[Plaintiff] has bodily appropriated the [Lord of the Rings] characters in his [novel]. This Court need not determine whether the characters in [Plaintiff's work] are substantially similar to [Defendants'] characters, as it is uncontroverted that the characters were lifted lock, stock and barrel from [The Lord of the Rings].

Urulókë wrote:

[Plaintiff] has bodily appropriated the [Lord of the Rings] characters in his [novel]. This Court need not determine whether the characters in [Plaintiff's work] are substantially similar to [Defendants'] characters, as it is uncontroverted that the characters were lifted lock, stock and barrel from [The Lord of the Rings].

DP's letters are cited. I knew those would come back to bite him.

onthetrail wrote:

15 pages and at least half of that are his barmy letters. I hope he calls time on this before it costs him his house, if not already.

Trotter wrote:

onthetrail wrote:

15 pages and at least half of that are his barmy letters. I hope he calls time on this before it costs him his house, if not already.

It is a bit late for that, they have asked for him to pay the lawyer's fees for the Estate and Amazon, plus he is now facing a copyright infringement case, which he appears to have admitted to in these letters, with the Tolkien Estate.

Dagoths wrote:

This guy should do what every other fanfiction writer is doing, publishing on AO3 for no profit, and then opening a patreon and have people donate to him. There are fanfiction writers making $50,000 a month doing this. Just saying. I have no idea the legality of such things. Also, I just want to add I'm against doing that as well. I don't know why people are allowed to do such things.

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