It is nothing more than trying to cash in on someone else's work and popularity. You can't "re-imagine" the LOTR and cash in on the success and fan base of the series that is true but I don't think the literary world is suffering simply because you can't do it for modern works. Why should intellectual property be treated so much different than other property? You can't take someone's land simply because they die no matter how long they have been dead even if you think you could get some use out of it. The huge amount of money made by the recent LOTR movies shows that there is still real value in the product I haven't seen in valid explanation of why that value should be taken away from the estate of Tolkien.