Thread:High King Ithilion/@comment-25754873-20160302232802/@comment-26453572-20160305141440

They made the deal with Peter Jackson's crew, not with the Tolkien family. That's why they went based on movies.

And to be honest, I see no problem in making toys based off of movies instead of books. Just because they don't get every last detail from the books doesn't mean it's suddenly a bad movie. Just look at Lord of the Rings, for a while it was the second most read book in the world, the first being the Bible. When the movies came around, were people disappointed at the missing book details? Obviously not, they have some of the best movie ratings, got thirty Oscar nominations, and won seventeen of those.