Restaurant asked to cease use of “Hobbit” in their name
Attorneys representing the Saul Zaentz Company (SZC) have written to the owners of a small restaurant in Bonita Springs, Florida, named the Hobbit Grille. They claim that the unlicensed use of the word Hobbit, “is clearly injurious to SZC and its existing restaurant, food beverage, and other licensees…”..
The attorneys have requested that the restaurant cease their unauthorized use of the name and have given the owners until 1st December to come up with a new name. The owners say the name stays. You can read the full story here .
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Haven’t the Tolkien Estate got anything better to do? Perhaps the people named the restaurant after the extinct human species popularly known as hobbits instead *grin* Or is that name the next to be disallowed?
Ridiculous! Leave the name be! Sheesh…don’t they have anything better to do than pick on a restaurant?
Ugh. It’s just a word. A word Tolkien coined. Shakespeare coined hundreds of words, but no one has chastised me for saying, “Olympian” or “lonely”. Is that next? Seriously, leave them alone.
They single out a cafe that sits 16 poeple? How can that hurt them? they say they named it after a childhood eatery. Come on.
That is pathetic, if they keep carrying on like this we will be banned from using LOTR names in OUR names. When will this end??? when we all fear to even talk about LOTR.
SZC really need some outside interests….
Oh….my…..gosh…..
A surefire sign a company has gotten too big for its britches.
For goodness sake.
AND NEXT —
Our fanfics and our Fan art and all of the wondrous costumes we make will all be taken away and we will all be sued for using elvish in our everyday speech!
That’s the most stupidest thing I’ve heard. Why are they picking on a lil’ ol restarurant!? They must be really bored…
I have seen a very beautiful housing development called The Shire. Let’s hope “the attorneys” never find it.
There’s also a pub called “The Hobbit” in Southampton England, if they need another scapegoat.
That’s rediculous! So it has Hobbit in the name!! They really need to chill. They need to get a hobby… like a rubix cube!