I dag er de første to episoder af The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power endelig landet, og dermed har Amazon sat gang i deres kæmpe satsning. Men kort forinden afslørede Embracer Group, at de i en relativt stor handel har købt Middle-earth Enterprises.
Men hvad betyder det her for rettighederne til fortolkninger af Tolkiens verden? Ja, det lader ikke umiddelbart til at være et problem. I et interview med IGN fortæller producer Lindsey Weber, at Embracers planer, og Amazons serie, let kan eksistere side om side:
"[T]here's no shortage of stories in Tolkien. You could do another 50 hours and another 50 hours and you'd still have more and not scratch the surface. We are telling a Second Age story and obviously hope to be the definitive version of that Second Age story. But Galadriel, for example, is an immortal character and there's no shortage of stories to go around."
Det lader til at de er åbne omkring andre spillere på banen.
"Look, Tolkien I think, belongs to everyone and there will be many more adaptations of his work, I'm quite sure, beyond our own. And there have been before us and will be after us. And it's just a sea of imagination that I think will spawn many, many adaptations."