Yea I think that leads to the next real problem, Christopher Tolkien has to kick the bucket before any more rights can be obtained. I'm certain the rest of the family are more willing to actually recreate that mountain filled with gold just as soon as they have the ability to sign off more media...
Like most fantasy stories Tolkien's stuff also had that older mythic age where things were just a thousand times more magical. It always comes off as more interesting than the common mundane age that the current story resides in.
I think the problem is that even in book format most of the...