Ahmet Zappa in live performances. Under Ahmet's direction, the trust proposed a trademark on the name "Zappa", which would prevent Dweezil from using the name for commercial purposes without authorization. Since 2006, Dweezil toured with an act called Zappa Plays Zappa, playing his father's music. The trust sought to collect a fee from Dweezil for continued use of the name, as well as proceeds from merchandise sold at Zappa Plays Zappa concerts. In response to the trust's action, Dweezil renamed his performance series "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the F@%k He Wants — the Cease and Desist Tour. Zappa
Sun and Moon (Middle-earth) Sun and Moon (Middle-earth) The fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien of Middle-earth fame included Earth's sun and moon for the cosmology of his myths of Arda. These astronomical bodies appear in various versions of "The Silmarillion", a history of a world, called Middle-earth populated by Elves and other fantastic creatures as well as Men. A version of "The Silmarillion", edited by the author's son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien, was posthumously published in 1977. However the Sun and Moon already appear in the author's writings dating from the 1920s. The sun and moon in Tolkien's legendarium were described in