[spokeshave2]

You understand, the moment I start earning dinero I would expect to hear from the lawyers of the Tolkien estate. As someone mentioned here recently, the Brits vigorously defend their copyrights, and the Tolkien folks especially.

Hi Bob, The Tolkien copyright is for the body of the work..that is you can't take a chunk of text and include it as your own work.

What you can do is take a piece of text, highlighted in italics, and use a footnote such as "1, Text copyright by Tolkien and successors"

If they are invented words....then did they trademark/copyright the word? If not I don't see why you can't use it.

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[Bob Ireland]

*** What you can do is take a piece of text... use a footnote such as "1, Text copyright by Tolkien and successors"***

Fair usage; I advised JimRob on this issue early in FR history.

***If they are invented words....then did they trademark/copyright the word? If not I don't see why you can't use it.***

The simple answer is 'yes' it can be copyrighted - intellectual property. You are addressing some fairly complicated international legal issues... which I am in no position to pursue, especially now. But they have been tested in court re: Tolkien.