The fact that Peter Jackson has liberally drawn upon material in the appendices to flesh out his vision of Middle-earth might one day inspire someone to approach the Saul Zaentz Company with a proposal to make a movie about one of the incidental stories from The Lord of the Rings. I could easily imagine an entire body of movies based on the Tolkien stories, but that might seem like a nightmare to members of the Tolkien family. There is NO “Silmarillion” movie on the way.Ĭonceivably the constituent tales of The Silmarilion could provide plots for many movies, especially for “Beren and Luthien”, “Turin Turambar”, “Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin”, “Eärendil and Elwing”, and many other great stories that are given less attention. UPDATE: Rumors of a Silmarillion movie have been circulating on the Web because of an old April Fool’s joke from the mid-2000s. Since The Silmarillion was not published until 4 years after his death, he could not have negotiated any sort of rights release for that book.Ĭhristopher Tolkien and the Tolkien Estate have steadfastly refused to sell film rights to The Silmarillion, which in my own opinion would probably not be adapted to film, stage, or radio as well as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been. Tolkien only sold the film and merchandising rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Q: Why Isn’t The Silmarillion Being Made Into a Movie or Radio Show?ĪNSWER: J.R.R.
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