[Cascadians]

A great movie; an even greater story; the more who read it will want to see all 3 movies. In 15 years another new wildly talented director will make 6 movies of TLOTR and blow everybody away following the books, and also make The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

LOTR is such a deeply spiritually inspiring story that it will generate creative visions forever.

Life is good! :-)

[Long Cut]

Awww, I was hoping Peter Jackson would tackle those for his followups. Especially "the Silmarillion".

[LenS]

Making The Silmarillion will not be possible so soon. The movie rights were only sold for The Hobbit and LOTR. Considering the current hostility of the Tolkien estate's board towards any movies (understandable, Tolkien sold the rights in the late 60's for about $20,000 -- about $250,000 in today's money -- so that his heirs could afford the death taxes that would be due when he and his wife died), we'll have to wait longer. Also, there's too much material to do all of the Silmarillion. But turning the Lay of Beren and Luthien or the Tale of the Children of Hurin into movies would seem possible if the board ever changed it's mind.