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Cause of Death Earnings 1: Elvis Presley: Musician: United States Heart attack: $40 million 2: Charles Schulz: Cartoonist Cancer: $32 million 3: J. R. R. Tolkien: Author: United Kingdom Pneumonia: $22 million 4: John Lennon: Musician Homicide: $19 million 5: George Harrison: Cancer: $16 million 6: Dr. Seuss: Author: United States 7: Dale ...
Exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were sold by Tolkien himself to United Artists in 1969, reportedly for a small amount, [3] [4] and are currently owned by Middle-earth Enterprises (formerly Tolkien Enterprises), inc., an Embracer Group subdivision, [5 ...
In 1904, when J. R. R. Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting. She was then about 34 years of age, about as old as a person with diabetes mellitus type 1 could survive without treatment—insulin would not be discovered until 1921, two decades later. Nine years after her death, Tolkien ...
The actress was near bankruptcy at the time, and today only has a net worth of $800,000. Related: 23 Celebrities Convicted of Tax Evasion. Kelly Rutherford 66th Emmys.
Forty-two years ago today, the world lost J.R.R. Tolkien, ... The professor retired from teaching in 1959, and was graced with more and more literary fame until his death on September 2, 1973 at ...
J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sold the film, stage and merchandising rights of those works to United Artists in 1969. They in turn sold them to The Saul Zaentz Company in 1976, which in turn formed Tolkien Enterprises, now named Middle-earth Enterprises, in 1977. [4]
The economy of Middle-earth is J. R. R. Tolkien's treatment of economics in his fantasy world of Middle-earth.Scholars such as Steven Kelly have commented on the clash of economic patterns embodied in Tolkien's writings, giving as instances the broadly 19th century agrarian but capitalistic economy of the Shire, set against the older world of feudal Gondor.
For example, Ellison's net worth has more than quadrupled from $47 billion to $217 billion. ... The 20 richest people were worth $406 billion then, a fraction of the $3 trillion they're worth today.