I don't think that's really the fuel of this. The Jackson fans I've talked with about that don't seem angry at CT for disliking the movies so much as hurt and bewildered by it. But that does predate the Estate's suit over the prospective Hobbit films.
Nevertheless it seems implausible to me that the Estate-bashers would excuse their perception of the Zazzle issue if only CT had liked Jackson. I think it's more a case of self-perception of "owning" the authors. The parallel case is the one described by JRRT in Letter no. 292 to Joy Hill. "I once had a similar proposal [for a sequel to LOTR], couched in the most obsequious terms, from a young woman, and when I replied in the negative, I received a most vituperative letter." To discover that the author, or his estate, does not approve of your colonization of his work, whether it is or is not, should be or should not be, legal or illegal, generates the Rage of a Fanboy or Fangirl Scorned.
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Date: 2011-03-01 03:39 am (UTC)Nevertheless it seems implausible to me that the Estate-bashers would excuse their perception of the Zazzle issue if only CT had liked Jackson. I think it's more a case of self-perception of "owning" the authors. The parallel case is the one described by JRRT in Letter no. 292 to Joy Hill. "I once had a similar proposal [for a sequel to LOTR], couched in the most obsequious terms, from a young woman, and when I replied in the negative, I received a most vituperative letter." To discover that the author, or his estate, does not approve of your colonization of his work, whether it is or is not, should be or should not be, legal or illegal, generates the Rage of a Fanboy or Fangirl Scorned.