its just fun to imagine. those battles onscreen.... helm's deep onscreen was nothing like i thought it would be. When i read it, it didn't even sound like that big a battle. But when i read the Silmarillion, those battles sounded 100x bigger....
if they did make those movies, they should focus on the main struggle of the elves against Morgoth... not the stuff about turin, beren/luthien, etc. More like Fingolfin's solo battle vs. Morgoth, the main battles, and Galadriel as a central character or somethign cuz she's like the only one that stays alive through the entire first age.
MAYBE they should make a tv miniseries out of it. That way, ur not limited to three hours a movie.
They could make it a 5 season show!! With the finale being of the 6th and last battle of the First Age. The premiere could be the story of the exile of the Noldor. Then they could incorporate a lot of the stories like the oath of Feanor's sons, Beren and Luthien, Turin, Hurin, Tuor, Huor, Eol, and allow for some character depth. Let's face it, so far Legolas and Gimli have not had very big parts in Fotr or TTT. It'd be cool to see character development and relationships and that kinda stuff.
I wonder what Tolkien's sons think of this. Like, I wonder if they'd like to see the Silmarillion made into a movie. i wonder what they think of the current lotr movies and stuff. If i were them, I'd be hella proud of being the sons of the writer that created the greatest imaginary world of all time.
well i heard that christopher tolkien was very unhappy with the films. i also beleive that i heard his son wanted to support PJ and because of it him and his father christopher hadnt talked for years. and since the tolkien family has the rights to the silmarillion (the copy rights to LOTR was sold by jrr tolkien long ago) i doubt it would ever get made. that being said, if the silmarillion was made because of the ties to the tolkien family it would be very acurate, and thus making it impossible.
a tv show could be done... it would be zena kinda cheese... but it could be done... you could have an old wizard (maybe that brown one) or an old elf (if you could even tell he was old) or even an old hobbit (bilbo maybe) anyway... you could have an old guy sitting around a campfire or something like that telling stories to the little ones... and it goes into the various stories from there.... i think it could be done narrator style. each story could be an episode... now if it was an HBO show or on showtime it would be better. and pry have a larger audience. i say an HBO series could be done well.
Originally posted by turin
true, but many people said LOTR could never be done and look at the wonderful films we got. i definetly think it could be done (silmarillion) but in what form i dont know. perhaps just some of the stories from it would be the most plausable way.
They simply thought LOTR was too long and that technology was not up to depicting it- that has changed.
NO amount of time will ever change the fact that the Silmarillion is a half-finished story without a sufficiently coherent narrative that was never meant to be read- and therefore seen- as a tale in that way.