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TildeATH posted:Are we going to get a big budget silmarillion any time soon? Or better, an inverted hobbit so it's a fun hour and a half children's version? Doubtful. Christopher Tolkien still owns the rights to the Silmarillion, and he thoroughly disliked the film versions of LoTR (Haven't heard what he thought of the Hobbit yet). With some justice, I think. I mean the Lord of the Rings films are good movies, but they are so removed from Tolkien that in a way we got Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings instead of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I say that as someone for whom Fellowship was his favourite of the movie trilogy. The Hobbit films were pretty dire as a whole, even further removed from the spirit and style of Tolkien's original story and not even good as standalone movies to boot. Frankly, I'd rather Hollywood not take on any of the stories from the Silmarillion. They would inevitably gently caress them up. The tales in the Silmarillion are too heavy, too grim in the original sense, too dour and depressing even if they are beautiful. Any movie studio would try to make a typical fantasy-action flick out of them, and would suck all the spirit that makes them so special right out of it. Personally I don't want to see any films based on the Silmarillion, for the Silmarillion's sake.
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