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Originally Posted by Azure
Just started it today. Fascinating so far.
I don't think they will ever make a movie out of it though. It would be a pretty big project.
Although, if the can adapt Game of Thrones into a TV show, why not the Simarillion?
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Utterly impossible to movie-ize it. It would be ten movies. But individual stories within the larger text could be done, which is why I say Beren and Luthien is a good one - it's a pretty standard movie plot. There's a ton of context, though, that might require an excessively long prologue to set up. You could make it a follow on of the War of the Great Jewels which would take at least 2 movies but even that isn't a great stand-alone, because if you just jump into that, where the eff did Morgoth come from?
I love the mythology Tolkein created for Arda. The abstract elements (the creation of the world as a melody sung by the Gods for example) blend with the literal since those gods are physically present and have a physical location for their home. Makes the whole history extremely interesting.