Tolkien's Opinion

[Alcuin]

Originally Posted by Butterbeer

can you imagine an alive tolkien giving away the rights to his life's work like his dis-interested (in the unknown medium of mass market film just then) heirs???

JRR Tolkien himself sold the rights to the movies in 1968 or 1969 to pay his taxes, as I posted earlier in this thread.

Originally Posted by Gordis

Anyone knows what was Christopher Tolkien's reaction to the movie like?

The initial reaction of C Tolkien and the rest of the family to P Jackson’s films was reported to have been quite negative. There were reports of a breach between Simon Tolkien and his father, the esteemed Christopher, over Simon’s presumed support of the films. Later, if I understood the media reports that followed, the family reconciled itself to the films. If you want to learn anything more, there were quotes in several stories in the press at the time attributed to various members of the family, and if you are interested, you might try Googling them or searching newpapers on-line such as The Daily Telegraph and The Times (of London), or the aforementioned Sunday Herald.