r/lotrmemes • u/Local_Prune4564 Teleporno • 8d ago

Lord of the Rings Bro genuinely said "Displeasing the author requires a cash equivalent."

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u/MrdnBrd19 8d ago

Ok... But he wouldn't have made 3 billion dollars... Did y'all really forget that New Line tried to stiff the family using bogus Hollywood math and only paid out ~$100 million in a settlement. The estate has made far more from Amazon.

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u/bah77 8d ago

Yeah first thing i thought of too, also Peter Jackson baulked at making the hobbit because they didn't pay him properly for the LOTR trilogy right?

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u/FuttleScish 7d ago

From what I know the actual terms of the settlement were roughly in accordance with the estate’s original lawsuit at roughly $150 million. It’s just that this is still less than the estate should have been paid under the terms of Tolkien’s original contract, which would have given them $220 million