The Lord Of The Rings and associated novels were one of the few remaining great bodies of work that could still be said to belong to the English in any meaningful sense. Christopher Tolkien understood this, which is why it was only once he died that his father's works were whored out to whichever multi billion dollar international corporation would pay the most money for the privilege of turning them into another bucket of brown sludge in the ocean of global mass media.
The Lord Of The Rings and associated novels were one of the few remaining great bodies of work that could still be said to belong to the English in any meaningful sense. Christopher Tolkien understood this, which is why it was only once he died that his father's works were whored out to whichever multi billion dollar international corporation would pay the most money for the privilege of turning them into another bucket of brown sludge in the ocean of global mass media.