Tolkien Estate

For the trade name of the corporate entity that holds The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings film, stage and merchandising rights, see Middle-earth Enterprises.
The trademark of the Tolkien Estate, a symbol made by overlapping the initials J.R.R.T.
Tolkien Estate trademark

The Tolkien Estate is the legal body which manages the property of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, including the copyright for most of his works. The individual copyrights have for the most part been assigned by the estate to subsidiary entities such as the J. R. R. Tolkien Discretionary Settlement and the Tolkien charitable trust. The various holdings of the Tolkien family, including the estate, have been organized under The Tolkien Company, the directors of which were Christopher Tolkien until August 2017 and his wife Baillie Tolkien, and J. R. R. Tolkien's grandson Michael George Tolkien. The executors of the estate were Christopher Tolkien (died 16 January 2020[1]), who was sole literary executor, and (succeeding J.R.R. Tolkien's lawyer Frank Williamson) Cathleen Blackburn of Maier Blackburn,[2] who has been the estate's solicitor for many years.

  1. ^ "'Middle-earth scholar' Christopher Tolkien dies". 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  2. ^ "cathleen blackburn". maier blackburn. Retrieved 31 October 2012.