#and elsewhere

I am simply CERTAIN that every day at Meduseld there were SO MANY looks being exchanged around and behind Théoden and Gríma. Háma and his guards meeting eyes across a room, brows raised. The unspoken “did he REALLY just fucking say that???” The unspoken “you and I are going to talk about this as soon as we can get a moment of privacy to try to figure out a way to undo it or undermine it.” The unspoken “maybe getting fired now would actually be a mercy.” The unspoken “who can we leak this to that might be able to do something about it?” The unspoken “no we are NOT quitting, WE are not the problem and we are not letting HIM drive us out of here, HE is the one who’s got to go.”

*steeples fingers* besotted demon filing their claws down so they can safely stick their fingers in their partner's mouth

I still think that Nintendo only seems unusually litigious because nobody else actually has IPs valuable enough for amateurs to want to infringe upon them. You'll never see the headline "Ubisoft cracks down on fan games" because Ubisoft does not have fans.