Posted on 02/23/2014 6:16:39 PM PST by Perdogg
It would be a tough job. I came to the realization that no Single movie, whether in 3 parts or 5 could ever do it justice.
Every story told in the book is a treasure and shining gem. It wouldn’t be possible to bring it to the big screen fairly. To many continuity and development constraints.
It would however make a great 2-3 seasons of 12 episodes each cable series done in a story book fashion. It could possibly go 5 seasons if they wanted the post Melkor early Sauron stuff.
I’m envisioning it more as a TV series.
If you have the time, this makes The Silmarillion come alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKVUkyFbU1s&list=PLmq-2EnAFfm1XjqIobOfc9fBlG5-rsi3M
For the record, I think the silmarillion is too sprawling to make into a film series like LOTR. Theres also no hobbits. What you could do would be to produce films from the longer and more developed stories in it, like Beren and Luthien for example.
Well, to be fair, he never actually finished it.
Not bad looking for an old chick, eh?
They stole the concept of Ringworld for that lousy Matt Damon movie Elysium. Though they made it an orbiting space station instead of a “planet” it had the same rotation and the same walls to hold the atmosphere in.
In actuality, the part that foretells the events in the ‘Ring’ trilogy is only about 20 pages at the end of the Silmarillion. The rest of it might not fare too well with other than devoted Tolkien fans.
By whom. I am sure Game of Thrones is much better as a book than as HBO series - which main goal appears to see how much they shock us with their homosexual sex and overall sadism.
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