Isengard's Half-Orc Program Was A Compliance Nightmare: Satire About AI in Future Litigation

It starts-- but doesn't end-- at horrifying details in the world of Tolkien's The Two Towers

Authors note: this article includes content from imagined legal discovery. In my attempt illustrate the role of artificial intelligence in the future of legal and compliance issues, I am imagining what discovery could look like in a series of legal matters that very clearly took place in the third age of middle earth, and thus past any appropriate statue of limitations.

This is parody and humor, and additionally satire, as it applies to the underlying intellectual property owned by Christopher Tolkien, and aggressively defended by the estate of the original author J.R.R. Tolkien.

As such, this continent is protected under legal regulations that allow for satire and should not be construed to be an impingement upon any of the underlying intellectual property of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, the Rings of Power, any of the licensing done by Amazon or Warner Brothers Studios, or any other associate entities.

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