The balls on this guy: An author is suing Amazon and JRR Tolkien's grandson claiming they infringed on his Lord of the Rings fanfiction

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An author is suing Amazon and The Tolkien Estate for what he claims is copyright infringement in The Rings of Power, last year's TV show based on the appendices of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. How could a show based on JRR Tolkien's work under license from The Tolkien Estate violate the intellectual property rights of some guy from LA named Demetrious Polychron? The perplexing answer is that Polychron published—on Amazon, ironically—a work of Lord of the Rings fanfiction called «The Fellowship Of The King,» and that's what he claims has been infringed upon.

Polychron set the stage for this lawsuit over several years. First, he registered the book with the US Copyright Office in 2017, which establishes when it was completed and gives him the legal basis to sue (though it doesn't indicate any judgment about his ownership). He then sent a letter to JRR Tolkien's grandson and the director of The Tolkien Estate(opens in new tab), Simon Tolkien, describing the book and requesting a review of his manuscript. He got no response. 

Here's where things take a turn. 

In 2019, «with excitement to collaborate with the defendants and the anticipation of publishing his book to the public,» Polychron hired an attorney to contact The Tolkien Estate again. The Tolkien Estate's attorney «rebuffed any attempt at collaboration the very next day,» according to the complaint Polychron filed. So Polychron says he then personally delivered a copy of the manuscript to Simon Tolkien «at his home» and notes that he'd included «the © symbol» on the manuscript.

Polychron got no response to the dropped-off manuscript, if you can imagine that, so he wrote a letter asking for it back and informing Simon Tolkien that «he would publish