Do EA own it all?

#21 Yeah, I had good laugh while reading it too..

Pray that none of the EA management read it, they might just get more of them crazy ideas ... ;)

#22 "EA can you see?
Your mamma so fat,
She wears a VCR
As her beeper, snap
When your aunt had twins,
Your mamma named them,
She named one Denise
And the other Denephew."

hehe....

#23 All Your Franchise Are Belong To Us!

#24 I so feel like flexing my Flash muscles after that!

#25 I'm a big believer in Fan Fiction. If it helps you learn how to draw, program or make music then by all means do it. Just do expect to sell it.

Some people want to learn in a enviroment that's exciting to them.

#26 You can sell "fan fiction" provided the original work is in the public domain.

There is a lot of old fiction that would work extremely well as the basis for a game, such as the works of H.G. Wells. LotR isn't old enough for this to work, but you might be surprised what is out there. Basically, anything you find on this site should be fair game.

#27 Project Gutenberg is a great site, but it does have titles that are not in the public domain. They're usually indicated in the lists and searches, though.

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EDIT:
Bartleby.com has some excellent resources, too. Including Gray's Anatomy, which is extremely helpful for artists working with human anatomy.

#28 Its most unfortunate that this conversation had to degrade into the 101 things that EA owns.

For your information, no, EA does not own all of the LOTR rights. In fact, all they own the right to are the movie related properties (the Jackson series).

I believe Vivendi secured the rights to the books, but I am not certain about that.

Even so, securing these large scale licenses is a VERY difficult process and requires a good deal of monetary support to pull off. Moreover, you need a proven team, product record, and a solid gold business plan to have any hope of walking through the door. They do not want to take risks with the product line.

As per EA, well... my thoughts on that are not for this post.

#29 Make a game similar to LoTR, but use your own characters and places, along with a different storyline. You should still use elves, dwarves, etc... I'm not sure about hobbits, since Tolkien created them.

#30 There is another name for Hobbits -- Halflings, and alot of FRPG's have some version of them or another, and if not they should have!!!! damnit