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With yesterday's news that Peter Jackson in talks to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion' into films I was thinking more about this.

I commented on this yesterday, thinking about it better, I modified it and updated it. Here:

I've always thought that an adaptation of "The Silmarillion" would be better as a streaming series rather than films. But if it were a film series, they should try to focus each one on a different story.

Each film (or season if it were a series) would focus on the following:

The first could begin with a narrator similar to LOTR, telling the story and creation of the world, the emergence of the elves, and the journey to Aman. This film would be starred by Fëanor and Fingolfin, with Fingon, and Maedhros as the most prominent characters. Most of the film would focus on the intrigues in Valinor, with Melkor manipulating the elves, ending with "Of the Flight of the Noldor."

The next film would depict the first battles, the Noldor encountering the Sindar, and would end with the rescue of Maedhros, the "healing" of the feud between the sons of Fëanor and Fingolfin, and the beginning of the Siege of Angband.

The following film would be the most difficult, as several different events occur without much connection. It could begin with Finrod encountering Men, then jump forward in time, and the film would show the relationship between the elves, their internal conflicts, and their arrogance. It could have included Ulmo urging Turgon to build Gondolin and Finrod to build Nargothrond, and the kidnapping of Aredhel, but the main plot of the film would be the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin. The film would end on a dark note.

Then there would be a film for each of the three Great Tales: Beren and Lúthien, The Children of Húrin, and The Fall of Gondolin. Although I'm not sure where to fit the Fifth Battle (Nirnaeth Arnoediad). Perhaps at the beginning of The Children of Húrin? Or part of the beginning of this chapter at the end of Beren and Lúthien and the rest at the beginning of the next film.

And then a final film starring Elwing and Eärendil, beginning with the Second Kinslaying, and including the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath. Since I don't think there is enough history for a single film just about the War of Wrath.

What do you think of this?

Although this worries me and has a high chance of being bad. I didn't like Prime's LOTR series very much and "The Silmarillion" also has a high chance of going wrong.

With yesterday's news that Peter Jackson in talks to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion' into films I was thinking more about this.

I've always thought that an adaptation of "The Silmarillion" would be better as a streaming series rather than films. But if it were a film series, they should try to focus each one on a different story.

Each film (or season if it were a series) would focus on the following:

The first could begin with a narrator similar to LOTR, telling the story and creation of the world, the emergence of the elves, and the journey to Aman. This film would be starred by Fëanor and Fingolfin, with Fingon, and Maedhros as the most prominent characters. Most of the film would focus on the intrigues in Valinor, with Melkor manipulating the elves, ending with "Of the Flight of the Noldor."

The next film would depict the first battles, the Noldor encountering the Sindar, and would end with the rescue of Maedhros, the "healing" of the feud between the sons of Fëanor and Fingolfin, and the beginning of the Siege of Angband.

The following film would be the most difficult, as several different events occur without much connection. It could begin with Finrod encountering Men, then jump forward in time, and the film would show the relationship between the elves, their internal conflicts, and their arrogance. It could have included Ulmo urging Turgon to build Gondolin and Finrod to build Nargothrond, and the kidnapping of Aredhel, but the main plot of the film would be the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin. The film would end on a dark note.

Then there would be a film for each of the three Great Tales: Beren and Lúthien, The Children of Húrin, and The Fall of Gondolin. Although I'm not sure where to fit the Fifth Battle (Nirnaeth Arnoediad). Perhaps at the beginning of The Children of Húrin? Or part of the beginning of this chapter at the end of Beren and Lúthien and the rest at the beginning of the next film.

And then a final film starring Elwing and Eärendil, beginning with the Second Kinslaying, and including the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath. Since I don't think there is enough history for a single film just about the War of Wrath.

What do you think of this?

Although this worries me and has a high chance of being bad. I didn't like Prime's LOTR series very much and "The Silmarillion" also has a high chance of going wrong.