philmh: saul zaentz of elan enterprises, inc. had a finger in many pies, not least one providing the route via which iron crown enterprises obtained their licence to create and produce their middle-earth roleplaying game, campaign & other sourcebooks, adventures and their poster-map of the whole of middle-earth° in the third age. . .
° - being considerably greater than just the northwestern quadrant mapped by jrrt
Added images (852186/852187) of first pressing labels showing "Distributed by Fantasy Records". (Not sure where I got the other two label images - probably Discogs). In 1977-1980 (maybe a bit later), the Stax catalogue was actually owned by something called Elan Enterprises, which seems to have been a partnership of Fantasy executives Saul Zaentz and Ralph Kaffel with the people who acquired the catalogue at the bankruptcy auction, but sometime later Fantasy acquired the catalogue outright.