[Talking_Mouse]

I agree with you. I seriously doubt that anything with The Silmarillion will be worth watching on a full screen without Jackson at the helm.

[glorgau]

Actually, I think the movies could have been done differently. While Gollum was the great "creation" of the movies, I thought that whole huge sections of meaning were lost in the films translation from the books. It was a strongly Catholic work and much of that got left out.

[kevkrom]

I seriously doubt that anything with The Silmarillion will be worth watching on a full screen without Jackson at the helm.

The Silmarillion will be hard to translate to the screen, big or small, period. It's a collection of individual stories with an overall plot/theme to them. It would have to be done as some form of serial to do any justice to them, otherwise, it would wind up being a massive re-write of the source material.