SILIMARILLION

[superdoug]

The first time I read The Simarillion was when I was about 15, after having read LOTR a few times. It was one of the most moving, powerful stories I had ever read, and remains so to this day. While I consider LOTR to be the most complete and refined of Tolkien's works, I hold The Silmarillion to be his masterpiece, the most expressive and beautiful of all the works he crafted. In all my years of studying fictional writing and epic stories there are few that can compare to the scope and the depth of what Tolkien envisioned.

However, because of that massive scale, I think it would be too great to turn into a movie. The Children of Hurin alone would be a massive media undertaking, The Silmarillion would just be way too much.

Hey that's about the age I was when I first read it and the feelings of it being a masterpiece are shared. I did have some trouble with the beinging the first time I read it but it just made me read it a bit slower to make sure I really understood it. I'll always love Lord of the Rings but the Silmarillion slightly nudges the number one book spot from it for me.

As to a movie of it. I don't think they could make a movie and have it do justice to the whole thing. They could try to do just segments like the Children of Hurin or Beren but to try and show it all a once would be overwelming and too long of a movie in my opinion. as far as the right i'm sure eventually somebody will get them. money seems to always win in the end when it comes to movies.

 

[woodsy]

Hey that's about the age I was when I first read it and the feelings of it being a masterpiece are shared. I did have some trouble with the beinging the first time I read it but it just made me read it a bit slower to make sure I really understood it. I'll always love Lord of the Rings but the Silmarillion slightly nudges the number one book spot from it for me.

As to a movie of it. I don't think they could make a movie and have it do justice to the whole thing. They could try to do just segments like the Children of Hurin or Beren but to try and show it all a once would be overwelming and too long of a movie in my opinion. as far as the right i'm sure eventually somebody will get them. money seems to always win in the end when it comes to movies.

Isn't this what people said about LOTR for 40+ years? The right man with the right vision and anything is possible. PJ is living proof of that.

 

[Darth Caedus]

What's funny to me, is that the Silmrallion, IMO, is better than the actual real bible; the writing more fluid with more interesting stories. I've read the silmarillion about 6 times now and it gets better every time I read it; it kind of reminds me of the Canterbury Tales. Anyway, I love the aspect of the book being a bunch of short stories intertwined with the story of the simarils.

As to making it into a movie, that would just be impossible. It's too grand a scale and it would be like a 16 hour movie (which I would honestly go to). It's a broader and grander story than LoTR and the Hobbit and would only make a movie with cutting up the stories, which shouldn't be done.

I could see one whole movies on beren/luthien and a couple other individual stores being made. An animated series, one for each chapter could be made, but I don't see that being any good.

 

[CAhobbit]

The only way "The Silmarilion" could see any movie treatment would have to be a series (movie or TV mini-series). The book is far too dense and big to make one, two or even 3 films out of it.

Of course a film version will probably not happen anytime soon (if at all) since the Tolkien Estate has no desire to sell film rights to anyone. They keep their hands pretty tight on their property.