[BlueLancer]

"If it does get remade, it will be an entirely digital production, with no live actors."

And incorporate the entirety of the books, including Tom Bombadil, the Barrow-wights, AND the Scouring of the Shire. How about .. oh .. say, an 18-hour movie of the six books.

[HairOfTheDog]

What I could see and would enjoy would be expanded screenplays of parts of the huge story, as if LoTR was a genre in itself, like Arthurian legends are. No one need take on the entire work in a package again.... many different and very interesting parts of the stories could be made into fine movies.

[Tom Bombadil]

And incorporate the entirety of the books, including Tom Bombadil, the Barrow-wights, AND the Scouring of the Shire</i.

One could hope.