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Could The Silmarillion be made into a movie?
Peter Jackson will not obtain the rights to make a film adaptation of The Silmarillion in his lifetime, and nor will any other film-maker. Unlike The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Christopher Tolkien, JRR Tolkien’s last surviving son, owns the rights to the book. In fact, Tolkien never finished The Silmarillion.
Who has the film rights to The Silmarillion?
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Reportedly Has Rights to The Silmarillion. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series has reportedly obtained the rights to J.R.R. Tolkiens’s The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, or at least parts of them.
Is the new LOTR series about The Silmarillion?
The series, which began development in 2017, will reportedly draw heavily from The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s posthumously published Middle-earth Bible that spans the entire history of the land he created, as well as Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth.
Why is there no Silmarillion movie?
There hasn’t been a Silmarillion show or movie because the Tolkien Estate never sold the film rights to anyone.
Will there be any more Middle-Earth movies?
Amazon isn’t going to remake the LOTR series that was last seen as several Peter Jackson-directed movies. Though this series, like the film saga, will be set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the company says the original storylines will come from a time period preceding The Fellowship of the Ring.
Is LOTR series based on Silmarillion?
Finally, the official synopsis for Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings television series has been revealed. While not name-checked, it sounds like the Lord of the Rings TV could be drawing from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. Published in 1977, after Tolkien’s death, The Silmarillion takes readers back into pre-Hobbit history.
Is Amazon LOTR based on The Silmarillion?
For those who don’t know, the trees, officially named Laurelin and Telperion, were created by archangels, known as Valar, to light the planet of Arda. In fact, they provided the first beams of light in Tolkien’s universe. Eventually, the trees were poisoned, with their last flowers becoming the sun and the moon.
Will Andy Serkis narrate The Silmarillion?
In a statement via The Bookseller, Serkis shared his joy (and fear) of returning to the beloved series: especially Gollum’s lines. Perhaps this is just the beginning, and he will go on to provide narration for The Silmarillion and every other work set in Middle-earth.