

From my understanding it was not the Tolkien Estate but the company SCZ?
This article was amended on 1 November 2012 because the first paragraph and a quotation from Dr Brent Alloway referred to the Saul Zaentz Company/Middle-earth Enterprises as “representatives of the Tolkien Estate”. While the Saul Zaentz Company/Middle-earth Enterprises hold the film rights and some other rights to certain of JRR Tolkien’s literary works including The Hobbit, they are not representatives of the Tolkien Estate. The Estate has also asked us to clarify that it was not approached concerning Dr Alloway’s lecture.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/30/hobbit-banned-prehistoric-hobbit







In German, AI is die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), i.e. feminine genus. So apparently a women /s