Only if Cozycore involves public hangings, tar and featherings, stonings
A Netflix mini-series, perhaps?
Also, did they wind up adapting the major stories out of the Silmarillion, such as Beren & Luthien and Turin’s tragedy, etc? Those would seem to be the best candidates to me, following on the Jackson movies.
Instead they did… a forging of the rings series, I think?
Nobody is allowed to make content based off the Silmarillion. The Tolkien Estate has exclusive publishing rights for everything 1st and 2nd Age. That’s why Rings of Power is so bad, they’re basically trying to rewrite the lore to tell the same story and set everything up the way it already is without being able to use any source material.
It’s like, just tell a different story at that point bro.
Okay, I see, but… is there some reason they wouldn’t be open to the idea of doing Silmarillion stories?
The Tolkien Estate (namely Christopher) is incredibly protective of J. R. R.'s works and their integrity. Anything that is produced, they want produced true to his image. That being said they were very much not fans of the theatrical LotR films we know and love by New Line Cinema. Also worth noting that when J. R. R. sold the movie rights back in the 60s, he only sold the movie rights to the LotR trilogy and the Hobbit, but there was an additional clause that stated that if the Silmarillion were to be sold, the company that bought the rights to the LotR/Hobbit would get first dibs on it. So, if they want a Silmarillion movie, they have to offer it to the parent company of New Line Cinema, meaning they’d likely purchase it and produce the movies, which the Tolkien Estate does not want. So, the chances of the rights being sold, at least while New Line Cinema and it’s affiliates exist, are practically zero.
So, why not make it themselves? Very much for the same reason. I don’t know your familiarity with the Silmarillion, but… it’s very heavy reading. Not to say that it isn’t a good read, or that the story isn’t there, but the first section of the book is a bunch of shapeless angels singing songs about life and accidentally creating the universe, and the remainder of the book has 500 characters with a total of 17 different names that get altered, swapped, and outright changed halfway through the story. A true 1:1 adaption of the book would probably be longer than the original extended trilogy, but be way harder to follow for the average audience. So, major changes would be needed to make it financially viable, which are the exact things the Tolkien Estate does not want New Line Cinema making them.
TL;DR: The Tolkien Estate has to sell the Silmarillion rights to New Line Cinema before anyone else can buy it, and the Estate didn’t like the other movies so they aren’t going to sell it to them (and thus to anyone). They didn’t like the movies because the movies made too many changes to get the books to work for film, so they certainly will not be the ones to make the major changes that would be necessary to turn J. R. R.'s Bible fanfic into a Hollywood blockbuster.
… There is a Hunt for Gollum movie coming out?
Wtf
Viggo is playing Aragorn!
Viggo is now older than Ian McKellen was when he first played gandalf…!
Yeah I saw that and wow on the age.
I’m a huge LotR fan (probably going to go see Two Towers in theatre tonight!) and am very much not looking forward to this movie, lol. I was reading Fellowship a few months ago and got to the part of the book that talks about what the plot of Hunt for Gollum is about… Aragorn pretty much summarizes the entire thing in less than a paragraph. It’s pretty wild.
As someone who’s not familiar with the breadth of stories told outside of visual media… what’s so great about that part of the story? I do thoroughly enjoy the universe, I’m just not much of a fiction reader any more!
In the books, Saruman and Wormtongue escape from Isengard and set up shop in the Shire while the hobbits are still busy wrapping things up in Gondor and Rivendell. They turn the Shire into an industrial dystopia, destroying the environment and subverting the local hobbits with promises of power before betraying them. When Frodo & co. return, they organize an underground resistance movement that leads to a revolution.
We need that now, closer to reality now!
Holy shit, that sounds like an epic story to leave out of the trilogy movies! lol Though of course I understand why they wanted a nice clean happy ending to that tale. Not like Peter et. al. knew it’d blow up so huge and they’d end up able to do far more eventually.
There would be continuity issues with Jackson”s adaptation, too—in the films, Saruman and Wormtongue die at Isengard (in the extended edition), Galadriel says Frodo’s dystopian vision of the Shire is what will happen “if he fails”, Rosie Cotton is a barmaid instead of a fellow member of Sam’s agrarian resistance cell, etc.
Ahhhhh yea, great points… I totally forgot about that despite the glorious https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqC5FnvAEc
I agree, but that was Capitalist Owners of Hollywood studios BLANKING everything up.
The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.
Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.
Yea, definitely a story beat that works far better in book form. Or I guess later movies/shows as suggested, too. lol
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