The Lord Of The Rings: Facts About J.R.R. Tolkien’s Saga
When the books came to the U.S. through sci-fi publisher Ace Books but this has no authorization from Tolkien. Ace editor Donald A. Wollheim claimed that the books of Tolkien weren’t copyrighted in the States. The English writer made enough revisions in order to qualify his works for copyright protection in the U.S. painter Barbara Remington
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