The Hobbit

[robneville]

And when this trilogy is done you can look forward to:

SAM AND ROSIE: GARDEN OF LOVE

SMAUG'S GOLD

SMAUG'S GOLD 2: HOBBIT VS LEPRECHAUN

50 SHADES OF GANDALF THE GREY

FRODO THE 13TH: SAURON TAKES MANHATTAN

KILL BILBO

HOBBIT HOTEL: BED AND BREAKFAST AND BREAKFAST

MY LEFT HAIRY FOOT

THE HOBBIT IN SPACE!

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Jul 31, 2012 18:14:26 GMT -4 robneville said:

KILL BILBO

Might be worth it to see Tarantino's take on Tolkien...

[kateln]

Jul 31, 2012 18:14:26 GMT -4 robneville said:

SAM AND ROSIE: GARDEN OF LOVE

When watching Return of the King, when Sam and Rosie kiss, my best friend leaned into me and whispered "That's almost as nice as when Mr. Frodo kisses me!"

Ever since then, I've known that Rosie was second in Sam's heart.

Would a hobbits go to Brokeback Mountain joke be inappropriate here?

I may complain about that it's now a trilogy, and that Peter Jackson's going to get more of my money. That's because, he is. That damn rat bastard. I love his take on Tolkien, I was enchanted with Lord of the Rings, and I'll be there opening weekend (or soon after) for all of The Hobbit movies.

[robneville]

Jul 31, 2012 19:09:48 GMT -4 kateln said:

Would a hobbits go to Brokeback Mountain joke be inappropriate here?

Not at all, though it would probably be the Misty Brokeback Mountains
or There and Backside Again.

[kateln]

There and Backside Again the story of Sam and Mr. Frodo.

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GeekDad at Wired Magazine pleads with PJ to film The Silmarillion.

If they focused on the story of the silmarils and mainly the love story between Beren and Luthien, it might actually work. Galadriel and Elrond would be in this story, as well as Sauron... I know the rights to Tolkien's work is all spread out in different hands, but I still wonder if this might happen.

[robneville]

Aug 1, 2012 9:05:08 GMT -4 @mimmilina said:

GeekDad at Wired Magazine pleads with PJ to film The Silmarillion.

but I still wonder if this might happen.

Hollywood rebooted Spiderman just a few years after the last one. They'll reboot Batman now that Nolan's version is over. If there's a way to reboot Harry Potter they'll do it. As long as something makes huge money ( Narnia stuff would still be made if it hadn't petered out ) they'll do it. If the Hobbit films are huge ( and they will be ) they will definitely move to whatever material they can slap a " FROM THE MIND OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN. " on.
It's why the Silmarillion even exists, the publisher wanted something, anything, to kept the Tolkien money coming in so the son gathered all the unfinished notes and stories together and tried to put them into some order based on what Tolkien was heading for and VOILA a brand spanking new Nirvana album with all those songs Kurt had in the vault,buy your copy NOW!

But like you said about certain stories it would have to be more like a series of TALES OF THE SILMARILLION because there is no main story. No hero's journey like the other two.
That's what kept me from getting into it decades ago, it was just reams and reams of incident, details and minutia. The whole think felt like an unending version of that so-and-so begat so-and-so from the bible.

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I fucking love The Silmarillion, and if they ever filmed it, I wouldn't even care if it was a weird, no-plot long thing. I would just watch it with giant anime heart eyes forever.

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Aug 2, 2012 16:34:18 GMT -4 @kungfuwaynewho said:

I fucking love The Silmarillion, and if they ever filmed it, I wouldn't even care if it was a weird, no-plot long thing. I would just watch it with giant anime heart eyes forever.

I'd read the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit multiple times before I ever saw the LOTR movies, but I never made it through The Sil until after I'd watched the movies. And then I actually liked it, though parts would definitely be almost unfilmable. The tale of Beren and Luthien, and everything about the elves rebelling against the valar is pretty damn cool... I'd love to see the elven story focused on Galadriel: she was one of the elves who chose to cross back to Middle Earth. They'd have to fill in some gaps with that, but yeah, I'd go see it no matter what.

[robneville]

Aug 2, 2012 16:34:18 GMT -4 @kungfuwaynewho said:

I fucking love The Silmarillion, and if they ever filmed it, I wouldn't even care if it was a weird, no-plot long thing. I would just watch it with giant anime heart eyes forever.

It may take awhile ( a decade or more ) but I'm sure you'll be doing just that.

For years people were sure LOTR was unfilmable then Jackson came along and proved them wrong. The Silmarillion as it stands is unfilmable as a single story but if Jackson is a producer on the project I'm sure they'll figure something out.

There's no way the Hobbit films won't be huge.

If a deal for the rights can be made with the estate then it's pretty much a done deal. Money streams need to continue and it's an untapped area of huge potential from not just the films but video games,toys, action figures, the book being republished, etc. There's no way hollywood doesn't want to get it's teeth in that pie. And for New Zealand were I assume the project would be made it's an industry that keeps hundreds of people employed for years. So there are forces that would have a vested interest in making this happen.