HarperCollins, Amazon, and, as a rights holder, The Tolkien Estate have unjustly co-opted Tolkien's "The Lord of The Rings" with covers from promotional material for Amazon's "The Rings of Power". This show is not an adaptation, rather, Amazon is making something new within a pre-established framework designed by Tolkien which Amazon is using creative license with. Mostly, this show contains vastly more content from modern showrunners, writers, producers, and corporate executives. For example, many of the show's characters, Disa, Halbrand, Arondir, Bronwyn, Theo, Eleanor Brandyfoot, Sadoc Burrows, Poppy Proudfellow, Adar, and more, are entirely original Amazon creations involved in their own originally embellished stories. That's nine characters, a whole fellowship of original Amazon characters we know of from just the prerelease promotional material alone. Whatever anyone's stance or opinion on The Rings of Power, it is a separate entity entirely from "The Lord of the Rings". 

There is a concern about the use of these book covers in question. With the likely inevitability of The Rings of Power's iconography being incorporated into wide cultural use online, in videos, posts, communities, memes, in art, in stores, on posters, t-shirts, merchandise, games, book covers, theme parks, or whatever else may come, and using this iconography to dress Tolkien's own original work, here meaning the bodies of text which contain his Legendarium as can be found in such texts as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, The Silmarillion, The History of Middle-earth, and elsewhere, is inappropriate as it aids in dominating the cultural consciousness' acceptance of Amazon's creation as part of Tolkien's actual body of works. It would be a tragedy to have his works scrubbed and colored over like a palimpsest, conflating and confusing them with Amazon's upcoming original series.

To quote Christopher Tolkien, "Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."

The request in this petition is to solicit HarperCollins, Amazon, and the Tolkien Estate with these conditions:

1. Request that all Amazon tie-in covers for The Rings of Power be discontinued entirely
2. That all e-book covers of The Lord of the Rings with Rings of Power iconography immediately be restored with different cover images, and that The Rings of Power tie-in covers be here entirely discontinued as well
3. All printing and propagation of these covers by Amazon, Harper Collins, the Tolkien Estate, or any other body responsible in handling Tolkien's works cease entirely now and henceforth
4. All future promotional material or iconography for The Rings of Power remain entirely separate and never be used on or in the published texts of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, and all subsequent publications of works by J.R.R. Tolkien containing information on his Legendarium