FROM OBSURITY to the MAINSTREAM: THRANDUIL CAUSING TROUBLE
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You won’t mind terribly if I’m late with my next excerpt--or the release date of December 22 (well, that might not be necessary). Seems Thranduil has hit a little snag--people keep sending screenshots of my blog to the Mythopoeic Society (with my mentions about them, no less)--and boy is it driving them nuts. Never mind the endless questions people keep asking them (and me) about the actual Tolkien Estate.
Stop that. Stop asking them questions--it’s driving them crazy.
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I am a member of the Mythopoeic Society, yes. But it’s rather crazy over there because of the recent unusual popularity of this book, The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy and at first, I thought they were asking me to take down 10 blogs dedicated to The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy. I can’t do that--for as many followers as it has here and across the web, if it were a published book, I would be considered a best seller on Amazon (okay, I’d be well over their estimation of a best-seller and you can already read me on Kindle).
They want me to take down the blog post that someone sent a screenshot of. That would take a very long time and keep me from writing. I’ll do it but I won’t be able to write and post for a while. It would just be easier to ask people to stop pestering them and explain to you what I know more about than they do. SEE BELOW:
It’s finally time to decide what to do with Book II: The Saga of Thranduil before this gets any crazier. But FIRST--stop sending them screenshots about what I say about them--not everyone of them know what’s going on--especially on Facebook. They have a website: http://www.mythsoc.org and a Twitter: https://twitter.com/mythsoc. Send that stuff officially. The Facebook Page for The Mythopoeic Society is not where they know it all--not everyone is even a member there and those I speak with are not always there so, from what they’ve told me, they have no idea what you’re talking about.
I know more about copyrights, licensing and all that hullabaloo far more than they do. I deal with intellectual properties all the time--I have a celebrity attorney that specializes in it and we’ve been working on copyright protection for over 20 years. He’s an artist himself and represents all types of artists from visual to music. Kevin Kline (Beauty and the Beast, 2017) is one of his clients.
Secondly: Tolkien Estate--yes, you can acquire about fan fictions and the like, just not on the Mythopoeic Society Page on Facebook. Go here: http://www.tolkienestate.com/en/home.html. That’s where the paperwork is and all the interesting questions and even some answers.
I just got it two years ago when they put it up. I had no idea that a) it was all that important to anyone and b) that The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy would get to the point where it have to consider being a published book outside of the Mythopoeic Society where I was planning to take it. Yes, you can ask the ESTATE about The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy all you want if you like--people are doing it; might as well make it a party.
Now that I’m done with that, now I’m forced to decide exactly what this book is and where it actually can go because now it’s everywhere and somehow flowing slowing into the mainstream dialogue--how fun; it hasn’t been three months since people started confusing me with Tolkien and an LOTR series popped up, having half of my known world asking me if it’s about my story.
It’s getting increasingly harder to write these days because somehow I’m pelted with secret admirers on Twitter and for some reason no one KNOWS exactly what “kind” of book this is and want to know. It’s become “something”--far more than I even thought possible. No one can decide if it is fan fiction or it’s Tolkien; is it an branch of Tolkien or a stand alone. Either way, before 2018, that decision now has to be made and whatever I decide, there will be a lot of people claiming it--it has already begun.
Well, so much for keeping this thing low key until I finished the entire trilogy. Once again, Thranduil’s causing a stir. I have a feeling this is just going to keep happening until Lee Pace finds out--talk about awkward.
This escalated quickly. I guess the time has finally come to actually do something with Book II: The Saga of Thranduil. I guess it’s time for Thranduil to claim what is his--whatever that is. Whatever it is, it’s pure Thranduil.