Random thought #1: LOTR Movies.

I am a confessed Lord of the Rings nut, and have read everything from the big Trilogy to the Silmarilion and the Children of Hurin, as well as seeing the movies. Towards that end, I both love and hate the movies. I love the movies on the Trilogy, and I believe they were well done, and while they didn't include everything, they did a pretty good job with a very heavy set of books. The Hobbit is what ticks me off. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the Hobbit for children. The goblins aren't as nasty, the issues are more trivial, the whole thing is more surreal. It is not, and was never ment to be, an epic on the level the Lord of the Rings is.

So, not only making a massive movie out of it, but making THREE of the Damn things made no sense to me. The movies were still good, don't get me wrong, they were just completly different from the orignial intent of the book they were based off of. Therefore, it was no surprise they had to "beef it up" as it were. All I can say about that is at least Azog was actually in the Lord of the Rings universe. If I try to say more I'd dissolve into enraged cursing.

Ultimently, I feel like if any book required a three-parter, it would be the afore mentionend Simerilion. It would be a challenge, that much has to be admitted. But it could done. The biggest problem with the book is its sizeand confusing plot, or lack of there of. But this is an advatage for a movie, as much could be cut and edited with little affect to the story line. But now that I think of it, perhaps it would make a better T.V. show, such as the Game of Thrones has been made.

The series could follow the Rise of the Eldar, the royal family of the Noldor in particular. It would probably draw attwntion, as people would probably be hooked by the constant and nearly endless/hopeless war of atrition between the Elves/Men and Morgoth and his Beasts that is the First age of Sun. The series opener would probably be a movie, starting at the Realese of Melkor, and ending with his destruction of the Trees of the Valar, the slaying of Finwë, and the theft of the Silmarils. The movie would feature a prolouge covering the back story until the events of the movie, detailing briefly the destruction of the Lamps, the conflict with Melkor, the awakening of the Elves, the journey to the West, the creation of Orcs, and finally the Breaking of Utumno and the Chaining of Melkor. After the pilot movie, the series proper would start, with the leading of the Noldor to Middle-Earth by Feanor, and the subsiquent wars, up to either the Sinking of Beleriand or the Fall of Nùmenor.

What do you think?