Demetrious Polychron Versus Jeff Bezos and the Tolkien Estate

Amazon. The Tolkien estate. A fantasy writer named Demetrious Polychron — a name right out of a novel. These three things merged into a strange tale.

A First Edition of The Fellowship of the Ring with Art by Tolkien. (Source: Wikipedia, fair use.)

On April 18, many learned that a writer named Demetrious Polychron was suing Jeff Bezos and the J. R. R. Tolkien estate. Why? Because he wrote and unpublished The Lord of the Rings sequel, and he was accusing…