{"id":6735,"date":"2022-08-19T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/swedish-gaming-giant-buys-lord-of-the-rings-and-hobbit-rights\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:38:33","slug":"swedish-gaming-giant-buys-lord-of-the-rings-and-hobbit-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/swedish-gaming-giant-buys-lord-of-the-rings-and-hobbit-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish gaming giant buys Lord of the Rings and Hobbit rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embracer buys Middle-earth Enterprises which controls intellectual property rights to Tolkien\u2019s most famous works<\/p>\n<p>The company that owns the rights to JRR Tolkien\u2019s works, including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, has been bought by the Swedish gaming firm Embracer Group, which has hinted it could make spin-off films based on popular characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn and Gollum.<\/p>\n<p>Embracer has acquired Middle-earth Enterprises, the holding company that controls the intellectual property rights to films, video games, board games, merchandise, theme parks and stage productions relating to Tolkien\u2019s two most famous literary franchises.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/aug\/18\/swedish-gaming-giant-buys-lord-of-rings-and-hobbit-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b4b5ef262a238dafea14c55046eec138cfe8d463\/0_332_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b71cb377d4940e33ce6365c89ac82409\" title=\"Swedish gaming giant buys Lord of the Rings and Hobbit rights\" \/>Embracer buys Middle-earth Enterprises which controls intellectual property rights to Tolkien\u2019s most famous works<br \/>\nThe company that owns the rights to JRR Tolkien\u2019s works, including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, has been bought by the Swedish gaming firm Embracer Group, which has hinted it could make spin-off films based on popular characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn and Gollum.<br \/>\nEmbracer has acquired Middle-earth Enterprises, the holding company that controls the intellectual property rights to films, video games, board games, merchandise, theme parks and stage productions relating to Tolkien\u2019s two most famous literary franchises. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embracer buys Middle-earth Enterprises which controls intellectual property rights to Tolkien\u2019s most famous works The company that owns the rights to JRR Tolkien\u2019s works, including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, has been bought by the Swedish gaming firm Embracer Group, which has hinted it could make spin-off films based on popular characters &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/swedish-gaming-giant-buys-lord-of-the-rings-and-hobbit-rights\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swedish gaming giant buys Lord of the Rings and Hobbit rights<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}