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ange1e4e5
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Jul 1 2016, 8:40pm
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Favorite Son of Finwe
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Who is your favorite son of Finwe?
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Gianna
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Jul 2 2016, 2:55am
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I mean, he challenged Morgoth to single combat, mocked him in front of his slaves, wounded him seven (or eight?) times, and came mighty close to defeating him for an Elf against a Vala!
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ange1e4e5
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Jul 5 2016, 1:50am
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Next poll: Do you want The Silmarillion, in whole or in part, on the big or small screen?
(This post was edited by ange1e4e5 on Jul 5 2016, 1:57am)
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Gianna
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Jul 5 2016, 4:00am
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I think I recall saying in an earlier thread that Hollywood or anyone big would make hash of it. Some unknown director should take it on, do it quietly (as quietly as this project could be done!) as an art film or TV show.
This is excellent: https://silmarillionseries.com/
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Winrobee
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Jul 6 2016, 6:24am
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Big screen has been a winner for Middle Earth.
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I disagree with the opinion that everything has been said about a Silmarillion Movie. Not in this generation will there be a Silmarillion Movie, sure, but Christopher Tolkien (and let me state that he's the hero who saved The Silmarillion from oblivion 40 years ago) is the caretaker for the Sil, and he's the sole voice that says anything copywrite-wise. And regarding copywrite, the state of the Tolkien Estate is a 16-years-in train wreck.
But, you see, Christopher will be 93 in a few months, and Dunadanic age though he may attain, a next generation of Estate guardians will confront the need that a train wreck need be cleaned up. So I offer the speculation that, a generation from now, there may be people looking to new business regarding copywriter legacy.
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Winrobee
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Jul 6 2016, 4:42pm
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High Fantasy Cinima need not Become a Thing of the Past
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First, a few words n appreciation of the Tolkien Estate:
You might well describe what Christopher Tolkien did in saving The Silmarillion from oblivion out of his father's papers 40 years ago in terms of cultural heroism. In terms of JRR's "intents" for creating about the Middle Earth legendarium, the artifice by which the further stories beyond The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings manifest in the manner of social and cultural entities, and indeed of all of them, has been by the dedication and goodwill of the people in the Tolkien Estate.
Clearly Christopher and the others with with him, are more than any others behind the defining and the functioning of the entire "legendarium" concept. And our luck has been extreme that anybody should have been willing to take up the task. Through Christopher we have gotten 2 lifetimes of an author, if you will, of dedication to the creation and furtherance of the seminal high fantasy fiction works and their evoked universe. And that has remained the main origin of the great vehicle of modern fantasy to this day.
The question of correct portrayal of Middle Earth is in fact being defined to be that of the Tolkien Estate's and this example will carry on through all modern story telling and accounts in capacity of cornerstone of people's culture and traditions for the time that memory of our civilization survives.
OK, let's see where cinema stands with regard portrayal of the genere. Like the novel Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's adaption was a groundbreaking new use of a medium to portray a story the likes of which, in the depiction of beauty and ęsthetic detail, went farther than anybody really had the right to believe. I think that there's fairness to the contention that both successes were in their category of human achievement far beyond mere acmehood, but rather were the carriers of their fields. I point out that criticism of The Hobbit apparently took a harsh note precisely because there was nothing but The Lord of the Rings to use for comparison.
When the Estate passes on to other generations, therefore, there may be, after a big legal cleanup, another chance for this alignment of high fantasy media juggernauts to work.
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