Reply To: Silmarillion movie ?

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Well, in the appendices to the extended edition of the LotR DVDs, Peter Jackson says that the book would have been impossible to film as written – and I think that is correct. Trying to do so would result in something akin to those never ending family sagas like The Onedin Line, The Buddenbrooks, Upstairs Downstairs  or Downton Abbey.

Many episodes would feature mostly Hobbits and Dwarves singing or telling tales, which would delight die-hard fans but horrify the vast majority of the ticket-buying or TV-viewing public. The battle of Helm’s Deep, which lasts for a good 1/2 hour or more in the movie, is barely 1 1/2 pages in the book.

So he turned what is essentially part of Tolkien’s ‘natural history’ of Elves and Hobbits into a martial arts- and video game-inspired monster flick.

Which is what I suspect they’re going to do with the Silmarillion, except with the added toxins of ‘woke’ cancel culture, Agenda 2030 and associated ills.