According to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, The Tolkien Trust, which is responsible for managing the intellectual property of the late Professor J. R.R. Tolkien, is suing a man named Demetrious Polychron.

In the suit, the Trust said the lawsuit was brought due to Polychron’s “willful and blatant violation” of its copyright interests in the Lord of the Rings franchise.

The Trust said despite the author being aware of its rights in Tolkien’s work, he decided to “write, publish, market and sell a blatantly infringing derivative sequel to the Tolkien Trilogy entitled The Fellowship of the King (the “Infringing Work”). In addition to clearly mimicking the title of the first book in the Tolkien Trilogy, the Infringing Work constitutes a blatant, wide-ranging and comprehensive misappropriation of Professor Tolkien’s creative opus.”

[According to copyright law, Tolkien’s estate likely controls much of this material — if not all of it — for at least another 20-30 years. Polychron has already filed his own suit against the Trust and Amazon, claiming that they plagiarized his material for the Trust-approved prequel series on Prime. I’d guess that Polychron would have to have gotten a license from the Trust to write *anything,* and I’m not sure how sequels of LOTR — which would have to be set in the Fourth Age of Middle Earth — would have anything to do with the Amazon show, set in the Second Age and reportedly sourced from the Silmarillion. — Ed]