Hi Kai, Exactly my question. It is a nice idea, a great dream, but I don't think any accessible developer is going to be able to afford comercial rights for the Lord of the Rings triligy in the first place. About the only game I can think of that comes close is the open source game, Angband, which is based loosely on the Samerilian. Even then, we are talking about an absolutely free open source project that skirts the copyright issues by being free and open source. Were it based on the LOTR books/movies with all the main characters the Tolkien family might take a decidedly different view of the game.
Cheers! On 3/14/11, Kai <kaixi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > The Tolkien family and its affiliates are very strict about their copyrights > and properties. > > Whose going to barter licensing rights with Tolkien's descendants, and whose > going to pay the fees for such rights? > > Kai --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.