The Simarillion

hopefully by now you've finished the book... 😛

i am, and wow, remember when Mah modded us

if we both can remember that...then we've been on too long 😛

lmao, lol...this is awesome. Old thread. 😂

Feanor, digging up some antique threads, eh? You can be a great archaeologist. 😛

just call me indiana feanor...

LMAO! 😆

wow , Mah, do you know how long i haven't seen that name in here.

Nah Sauron, I read the Silmarillon in 2002

well i read it in 2003 😛

point proven 😆

by now we've all read the book ... and we all agree that it's not written in the same convention as the trilogy

hence, it's inability to be translated into a movie ... i know, i know ... old and tired argument

but what if they could? what if someone were crazy enough to tackle such a daunting task?

what would that writer(s) need to utilize in order to make it into a movie?

concentrate on one part of the story and disregard all the others that make up the silmarillion?

if you've got to ask yourself...what is the silmarillion?

anyone? anyone? anyone?

Originally posted by Fëanor
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what would that writer(s) need to utilize in order to make it into a movie?

It would have to be different. unlike any other movie made. The different stories contained in the silmarillion are each one remarkable, and all related. But individual as well.
The writers would could take advantage of this. Telling the tales separately in different films. Yes, I think there should be more than one movie. Maybee having , valaquenta, and ainulindale as a prolouge to FILM 1, and having the main film focus on the creation of the Silmarils and Fëanor's oath, with the climax beeing the chaining (or unchaining??) of melkor.
Film 2 could focus on Beren and Luthien's tale, and adventures...and film 3 of Turin...ect...

Moments I'd love to see on film...
The fall of Gondolincry
Sauron's lair in ___? I forgot the name
Luthien's battle with Morgoth in Angband.
Huan and carcharoth....🙁

Smodden> Tol-in-Gaurhoth

Originally posted by The Inkeeper
and i change my mind, melkor/morgoth was better than sauron

Yes, I was better than you! 😛