Tolkien estate wins copyright lawsuit against The Fellowship Of The King author

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The estate of Lord Of The Rings writer JRR Tolkien has won a lawsuit against US author Demetrious Polychron over his book The Fellowship Of The King.

A US judge granted a permanent injunction against Mr Polychron, preventing him from distributing any further copies of the 2022 book which the author previously claimed was the sequel to The Lord Of The Rings.