[SueRae]

I will go to a theatre to watch it...and will ultimately add it to my LOTR video collection.

Like you said, good escapist stuff from some of the uglier aspects of reality. I am disappointed to hear that it will be released in three parts, though.

I guess we can expect The Silmarillion eventually..

[Mmogamer]

Good grief, can you imagine how many movies it would take to do the Silmarillion?

[Jonty30]

I’m sure it could be done, because I don’t think the Silmarillion would be successful, at the box office.

It’s too high-minded and unrelateable. However, if they did make it, I’d go see it.

[Sawdring]

I saw it tonight with my son and I thought it was excellent. Half of the cast from the LOTR series will be dead before they get to the nine part movie the Silmarillion. Although you could certainly have a younger Gandalf, Radagast and Saruman and the others being brought to Middle Earth by the Valar. That would be great to watch.

I will always remember the first time I read the Silmarillion because I caught a debilitating case of two week poison ivy when I was in the middle of it as a kid. Ah, the memories!

[grellis]

I guess we can expect The Silmarillion eventually..

I would love that, but only as a very well produced mini-series. FX or TNT, maybe. Even though it's the shortest of the three Middle Earth books, I don't see how it could be done any other way, unless the screen adaptation were completely unfaithful to the source material.

[Hazelwood Redneck Brain Trust]

I guess we can expect The Silmarillion eventually.

I seriously doubt it. The Tolkein family wasnt really warm to the idea of the LOTR or The Hobbit books to be put on film. JRR himself didn't think that what was in the book could be properly translated onto film.

However, he had sold the rights to the both of those (why, I dont know) - and therefore putting them on film was out of his control.

The Silmarilion however was published posthumously as a collection of unpublished histories & stories edited/arranged/finished by son Christopher. The family refuses to give up the rights.

Plus - it would be near impossible conceptually to be done as a complete book.

My friends and I are huge Tolkein fans, having picked it up from my best friends parents & their friends. Now my friends' kids & some of their friends are picking it up.

Several of us went to midnight showing.

Movie was awesome, as a fan. (We watched 2D) We did not go in expecting it to be like the book. (Good thing.)

[Nateman]

I hope he does the Silmarillion. It was too boring for me to ever read it. Reading pure history can get dry sometimes, so imagine doing that for a purely fictional world. Plenty of room for a good script writer to flesh it out though. Thousands of years from which to make stories!