The War Over Middle-Earth (opens in new tab)
In 1965, The Lord of the Rings came out in the U.S. in paperback form, courtesy of sci-fi publisher Ace Books—and it did so without the authorization of Tolkien himself. Ace editor Donald A. Wollheim claimed that the works weren’t copyrighted in the United … <a href=" reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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