Posted on 07/31/2014 6:34:48 PM PDT by Perdogg
With The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies capping off The Hobbit trilogy - and finishing out what Jackson thinks of as a six-part set of films, that includes Lord of the Rings - it would seem that his time in Middle-earth is at an end.
However, some fans wonder if there isn't one more work of Tolkien that Jackson could adapt to film. The Silmarillion, something of a history of Middle-earth that precedes both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, remains unfilmed.
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LOTR is great!
The Silmarillion??? Not so great
I read once that PJ couldn't get the rights to The Hobbit, so he used indexes and such from some of the material he already had rights to and had to fill in a lot of blank spots. Still good movies.
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For those trouncing LOTR and Hobbit, hey, actors exist, hollywood exists. Go make a better one and lets see how it stacks up!!!
The Silmarillion is awesome, it is just written like a biblical epic rather than the novel way LOTR and the Hobbit were written....personally I love all the drama and backstory in the Silmarillion...
You apparently saw something in it I didn’t. All I saw were endless chase scenes, with poor attempts at slapstick humor, with a focus on an elf, and an elf-dwarf love affair, that seemed aimed directly at the Twilight crowd. There was none of the character development that was the central theme of the Hobbit, nor was there any of the sense of adventure. I think he thought that because it was a book aimed at children, he thought he had to make the movie silly and superficial. But what separated Tolkien from the rest is that whereas most writers treat children as shallow and easily distracted by shiny objects, Tolkien treated them with respect, and capable of grasping deeper concepts like sacrifice and honor, and capable of understanding the evolution of Bilbo (which was what the book was really all about).
To each his own, I suppose. But after enduring the first Hobbit movie, and being thoroughly disgusted by the second, I will happily skip the third, and wait patiently for the next 30 years until someone comes along and does the book justice.
There must be a widespread belief in the entertainment industry that women simply can't sit through a movie that doesn't contain some romance in it. The second Hobbit movie was utter crap.
He’s ruined the Hobbit, so what possible harm could this trilogy do?
Check out the Tolkien professor, who has his Simarillion seminar on line. I never got through the book either, but having it explained helps. Its on iTunes or google the Tolkien professor.
Most of the Simarillion is unfilmable, except for Luthien and Beren. TurinTurimbar’s story is too depressing.
However, Jackson has the rights to LOTRs including the appendices, so Aragorn and Arwen could be filmed.
GAH.
Indeed. Just the creation story of the Ainur by Ilúvatar would take up 3 films. To do the rest would take many more and any potential audience would get very bored, very fast.
Plus...a representation of The Music of the Ainur and Melkor's divergence to create his own song on film would start to look suspiciously like David Bowman's journey into the Monolith at the end of "2001". Audiences would have a very large 'WTF' moment or three.
Let it go Peter.
Try listening on Audio Book. Or download the 13 parts from YouTube. It is very enjoyable that way.
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