>The Estate has also never sold any Silmarillion-related material. Why not? That was one of the big problems with Amazon's show: it couldn't use any material

>The Estate has also never sold any Silmarillion-related material. Why not? That was one of the big problems with Amazon's show: it couldn't use any material from The Silmarillion, only the appendices from RotK. Why wouldn't the estate want to capitalize on that, perhaps with some clauses to make sure it doesn't get butchered too much? They capitalized on the extra LotR material (to the tune of $250M as you said), so why stop there?