Mort-Hog
If moral relativism is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
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I said this in the other thread, but I think it'd be better if someone other than Peter Jackson did The Hobbit. I think he'd have too many images and memories of LOTR and make it too much like it, like a prologue to the LOTR movies. Although that'd be sort of cool in a way, extending the trilogy star wars style, The Hobbit is such a different tone that I don't think it'd work unless Jackson somehow forgot everything he'd done on LOTR.
And the Silmarillion is out of the question. The individual tales, however.. hmmm.. The tale of Beren and Luthien...Earendil the mariner... hroom. That could work, if they had all the separate tales as individual films, and made lots of films. The tales do link up and make reference to other tales, but I think that might work quite well; much better than LOTR in fact, because the tales work as stories on their own and the different LOTR parts don't. It'd also be a very interesting job for the writers, because they'd have so much to work with, all eight books of The History of Middle Earth; I think Fran and the other lady would love that. But in Silmarillion, there's a big mix of huge global political events, and individual romance tales, which'd be a challenge to represent.
But from a realistic viewpoint, they wouldn't have the audience. They'd have me, and few others. :-D
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The Triumph of Stupidity in Mortals and Others 1931-1935
