I meant to bring this up for discussion last week, with the launch of R2, but it slipped my mind.
First off, I am a Tolkien nerd and I absolutely love that a Hobbit-hole style house made it into the housing update! I love my swampy hobbit home. But I'm wondering if TS has any concerns with the ravenous Middle-earth Enterprise (formerly Saul Zaentz Company) swooping in, cease-and-desist in hand, demanding money for usage of the word 'hobbit'.
MEE is notorious for this crap, so much so that they've tried to copyright the word 'shire' and inspired a full-on resistance movement: savetheshire.mymiddle-earth...
To their credit, MEE has been kind of reasonable in some instances, such as the Hobbit Pub incident.
Anyways, just curious to know if this has crossed the mind of anyone else and if TS has considered it. Save the Shire!