12-21-2003, 11:18 PM | #21 |
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I think that if they do make a movie about the Sil, they should do the story "Of the Rings of 'Power and the Thrid Age" or "The Akallabeth". Those are fairly stragihtforward stories I think...although they aren't exactly the Quenta Silmarillion, they are included in the published work.
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12-21-2003, 11:55 PM | #22 |
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i agree... you could make two... the downfall of numenor would be a great story in and of itself, and maybe the fall of gil-galad to cover the rings forging to the last alliance (this one would need the most "creative license" since the details are rather sparse)
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12-26-2003, 08:18 AM | #23 |
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i can't see the sil as a movie but more like a huge mini series like starting from the very begining of the book. when i read it i SO totally could see an opening(albeit a complete ripoff of disneys) of the songs intertwining and combining then falling apart but the question with this is who would compose the actual music for this
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12-26-2003, 01:23 PM | #24 |
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The Silmarillion could work as a sort of franchise, sem-independent stories, rather like the Star Trek or Planet of the Apes movies. in the same "universe" but largely autonomous stories. Some of the (partially overlapping story lines, but that's not necessarily bad in films) film stories, in no particular order, could be:
1---Feanor 2---Turin Turambar, Master of Doom 3---Gondolin 4---Beren and Luthien 5---The Akallabeth (ending with Elendil, Isildur, and Anarion landing on MIddle-earth 6---Thingol and Melian 7---Maeglin 8---Maedros [and you thought Boromir was a conflicted hero] 9---Earendil and the war of Wrath 10---(and, from Unfinished Tales, The Mariner's Wife and 11---Cirion and Eorl, from the Third Age, would also make a great movie, and would have a ready audience ready from LOTR movies.
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12-26-2003, 03:23 PM | #25 |
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yes like what they did with the "animatrix" how they did the whole pre-matrix thing but have the same format of animation.
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I would love to see the film but it wont be as sucsusfull has LOTR because alot of the audience wont understand in unless they have read the books or are hard core LOTR fans. Turins story would be loved and uderstood by many(women proably lol no im not sexist) the beginging will be hard but once they get the stride into Feanors story and the wars of the silmaril it will get easier for the audience to understand. I will love to see it but i don think its gonna happen, they would change too much if they do it and that will ruin the book.
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you know? i started reading the silmariliion adn got so confused with who's who in the Valar.....i'm planning on continuing tho and i think that if there is a film it'll be easier ot understand.....
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never ever make a film of Silmarillion!!!! It is impossible to make justice to the story, and it/they would only ruin it. never!
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02-06-2004, 11:56 AM | #30 |
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Originally posted by Orli17
you know? i started reading the silmariliion adn got so confused with who's who in the Valar.....i'm planning on continuing tho and i think that if there is a film it'll be easier ot understand..... ___________________________ You really should continue. I'm probably in the minority in generally liking the first part of The Silmarillion. It's laying a larger Nordic type background of a depicting of the "gods" (really angelic-type spirits), and the tale becomes increasingly Middle-earth centered as it progresses. Watch for perhaps the most moving, complicated, and tragic character (Maedhros). Edwin Mear's 1950s review to the contrary, JRRT did create some complicated characters. I find Maedhros more interesting and sympathetic then, say, Turin.
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I love the first part of Silmarillion too. It's so beautifully written, and I love the music of the Valar!
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02-14-2004, 11:32 AM | #32 |
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silmarillion movies
I think that if PJ made a bunch of silmarillion movies, I would be all for it.
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"It is unlikely that the Sil will ever be made into a movie for the simple fact that the Tolkien estate hold the rights to it and I hope always will."
____________________________ I thought that someone on the Entmoot speculated that those rights would run out fairly soon.
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There would need to be a market, or no one would bother.
LOTR was the best to do because Tolkien devoted an entire epic to it, in detail. Sil is vast in scope, but as mentioned above, there are several stories that could claim their own movie. And as there is a great deal ommited, much would have to be "theorised" to make it a successful adaptation, and this would get every die hard fan in uproar. And lets face it, they would be the core fan group the film would aim for.
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Oh my god not more films. After those hollywood abominations created by PJ I will never watch another tolkien film ever again!
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