Christopher Tolkien Sues New Line Cinema

This might not be new news to many avid Tolkien fans but I found a site that contained more details as to why the filming of The Hobbitt in New Zealand is being so delayed and why no new news is really coming out about the two new films that are to be shot by Producer Peter Jackson and Director Guillermo Del Toro (Director of Pan's Labryth). The site where i have found more viable news about the future of these films is www.planet-tolkien.com and has a good but short article about the status of the films.
So i do not need to go into direct detail here, the link will take you to the page and you can read it your self. However the legal case between Christopher Tolkien (author J.R.R. Tolkien's son) and New Line Cinema (who released the highly acclaimed Lord Of the Rings film series) for around 30 million pounds in back payments that Tolkien claims that New Line has not paid because it has practiced shady accounting to avoid making the payments. The legal case is striking and unfortunate as I am a huge fan of the books and films. Yet the really interesting problem is that Newline is owned by Warner Bros. who also holds the rights to the very lucrative Harry Potter film franchise. Money should not be an issue when these studios are rolling in millions even years after the first film Fellowship of the Ring was released. 30 million pounds is alot of money in the current economic climate but not for a company who is earning billions of pounds and dollars annually from just the Lord of the Rings series.
On another note fans can be ecstatic as Sir Ian Mckallen will reprise his role as Gandalf the wizard and Ian Holm one of my favorite actors of all time will narrate. In an odd move Viggo Mortenson has been rumored to be making a return even though his character Aragorn was not in the storyline of The Hobbitt. My best guess is that with the second film being a sequel of sorts taking up story found within the Silmarillion, Aragorn will be seen in only this sequel and not in the first of the two films to be released, The Hobbit.