Reply To: Silmarillion movie ?

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I don’t think there’s any chance of a Silmo film any time soon.  Amazon only got the licence for LotR and its appendices, which were sold off by the Prof back in the 1950’s, so have always been a commercial consideration available to the highest bidder ever since.

However, the Tolkien family have never ever sold the film rights for Silmo or the other works of the Prof, so any film would have to deal with them directly, and they are notoriously wary of selling off the film/TV rights, knowing JRRT and his son Christopher who edited the book, were always dead against doing so.

Any rumours of a Silmo film therefore are only that, and not to be trusted.