> Tolkien several said he wanted see what other people with their own creative vision could do set in Middle Earth. That would explain why the Tolkien state su

> Tolkien several said he wanted see what other people with their own creative vision could do set in Middle Earth. That would explain why the Tolkien state sued "Dungeons and Dragons", and Warner Bross, and anybody trying to clone middle earth in their own shows... This explains also why the Witcher would need to find a way to have elves depicted as much different as possible from Tolkien's elves. Tolkien's elves are extremely advanced technologically and the "de facto" standard now for the term, Witcher's elves are a tribe of poor forest people, closer to the (copyright free) traditional goblins, but that went extinct with Tolkien's work.