Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are about to go up for sale, according to a report Wednesday. A couple of titles have even been released since 2018. The rights to make movies and video games based on J.R.R. While The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has yet to come out, there are plenty of other LOTR games on the market. Once someone immerses themselves in the source material, they will naturally be left wanting more, and there is no better way to embrace this universe than to actually participate in it. With each passing year, more and more people fall in love with The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, be it through the books or even the movies. According to Variety, movie, merchandising, gaming and live-event rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are going to be up for auction, as the Saul Zaentz Company, which holds those rights, has decided to sell them.
Update Apby Mark Sammut: Tolkien's stories are timeless. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are going up for sale this week. Last week we reported that the Saul Zaentz Company, an organization that holds a major stake in the film, video game. There are plenty of contenders for the best Lord of the Rings video game of all time, but which title ranks as the greatest? maintains it still has the rights to The Lord of the Rings. Amidst a sea of half-baked cash-ins and cheap mobile strategy titles, a handful of truly fantastic games have graced our presence. Over the years, many developers have attempted to enter Mordor, but the road is littered with the defeated and broken. RELATED: 10 Pokemon Who Resemble Lord Of The Rings Characters The Lord of the Rings is the living embodiment of the word epic, so any earnest adaptation must be able to translate that sense of scale and wonder captured so effortlessly on the page. Packed with fantastical creatures and funny Welsh-sounding names, Jackson crafted a saga that can be appreciated equally by those who worship or ignore Tolkien's series. With the exception of Ralph Bakshi's ambitious but uneven animated film, Jackson was the only other director who believed that such a project could be carried out without producing a total embarrassment. In the early 2000s, Peter Jackson accomplished the impossible and successfully adapted Tolkien's books into cinematic form. Amazon Game Studios could, in theory, use the rights to help make the high-dollar purchase all the more valuable, in addition to launching a presumed, full-on 'Lord of the Rings' cinematic universe.
Split into three volumes and published over the course of a year, Frodo's journey to Mordor feels timeless. Inaugurated with a short fantasy novel called The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien created literary gold with 1954's The Lord of the Rings. It would not be an exaggeration to say that people have been entranced by the world of Middle-earth since the mid-1930s.