I just finished the Simarillion and it is such an extraordinary work of genious that it rates just as high as lotr. It also helps me understand some things in lotr that didint make sense. You wouldn't think a book about history would be so amazing my favorite story is about Aredhel and Eol. Its so sad tho, Eol getting thrown over a cliff and all (then again he was kind of a control freak) so gimme your input silmarillion fans!
very true, every story in the book is awesome. truthfully to some degrees i like it more then LOTR. what do you think the odds are that there will ever be a movie based on any of the stories in the silmarillion? thanks to the success of LOTR they are better then before, but still very unlikely in my opinion. too bad they would be sweet movies. could you imagine seeing the nirnaeth arnodiad (excuse spelling) or the war of wrath on the bigscreen? Balrogs, trolls, dragons, elves, it would have it all!!!
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and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
I'd love to see them make a movie of the war of wrath!!! getting to see the valar and dragons and balrogs. it'd be awsome!! i'd also like to see a movie on the story about Eol, Aredhel, and Maeglin
i agree with tiger lilly... it was not a fluid read. it was good for the history aspect but it was non-linear and hard to follow. it wasn't really a story.... more like facts about different aspects of the lotr world... i was hoping they would have more on the where the wizards came from.
and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
but its a little more interesting (in my opinion). my favorite story would be all of the stuff about turin turambar (sp) or beren and luthien. but it is REALLY hard to get into, but i dunno when i finally did get into it it was intoxicating....you know what i mean?
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absolutely!!! I also love the story of turin as well as gondolin, fingolfin, sons of feanor, well pretty much the whole book.
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and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
In reference to the person who wanted to know about wizards: Read Unfinished Tales. It's like an expansion to the Silmarillion, and fillls in some holes.
I have wondered about movies on the Silmarillion. Imagine 5 movies, each based upon each battle for Middle Earth against Morgoth. The 5th movie could have 2 battles, with the last one being the Valar coming and kicking Morgoth's butt.
The movies would be really good, despite their immense difficulty to make. The Silmarillion is like lotr times 10. Think about it. In the Silmarillion they had even less hope than frodo... Towards the end.. .almost all the elves in middle-earth were either dead or scattered and hiding.
The battles would be 10 times bigger than lotr too. I don't know if they could do all that cgi, but think especially of the 5th battle. When morgoth unleashes Gothmog and his Balrogs with Glaurung and his dragons and the millions of orcs he has... it would be incredible... just incredible.
Think how much it took out of Gandalf to kill ONE Balrog....
tolkien's son had said that the Silmarillion is a difficult book to read........
for everyone interested in the entire middle earth saga its a must have.
But i dont think that they should make it into a movie...........just think about how much stuff they had to leave out or skim tru in LOtr.............making the Silmarillion into a movie would be worse.
lol but since we have some pretty good images of middle earth in our head , lets just stick to our imaginations......
IT would be a horrible horrible thing if they made the book into a crap movie, Peter Jackson tooooookkkkkkk a gigantic gamble making lotr into a movie and he was BEYONd lucky that he made it well and it was recieved well. That kind of luck doesn't come everyday, or more than once in a lifetime.
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yea, i absolutely loved the silmarillion, i mean its my favorite book, but i dont think the movie would work out well. there are so many complex stories w/so many complex characters that it is near impossible to tackle even close to succesfully on screen. i say we leave it to the genius of tolkien and our imaginations, anything else might be a disgrace
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well it depends on how many movies you had to do it. if they did it in 5 movies like suggested earlier they could get most of the good stuff. besides, it wouldnt be an accurate depiction, but an interpretation just like LOTR and some of the things i regret not seeing in LOTR doent bother me because of what i did see, if you get what i mean.
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and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
the movies don't give tolkien enough credit. most people don't know how much of himself he put in his books. he literally created a whole world with everything.
yea...i guess but even tho lotr went above + beyond my expectations, i really dont know how well the silmarillion could be done, or received. think how hard it would be to comprehend as a movie because of all the short, indivdual stories. for an audience unfarmiliar w/tolkien, that mite be a very confusing, very boring movie. of course to us tolkien fans, it mtie be great, yet it mite not. its such a gamble no matter how you look at it, that its hard to imagine a director + producer even agreeing to do it...
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my favorite story is about Aredhel and Eol. Its so sad tho, Eol getting thrown over a cliff and all 
(then again he was kind of a control freak) 
so gimme your input silmarillion fans!
Aug 13th, 2003 04:12 PM
