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A comment on Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantasy Novels. Parent comment

Re:Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantas... by ehllo on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:51PM (#15688959)
I think tolkien is a good option for "new" stuff, since there are many written stories in this universe about other characters and the created world by him is massive. There is also a possibility to start with his oldest book "silmarillion".
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Re:Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantas... by username223 on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:06PM (#15689144)
Maybe they could do the "Tale of the Children of Hurin," but the Silmarillion covers thousands of years and hundreds of characters. It would be like a multi-season adaptation of the Old Testament, i.e. a disaster.
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Re:Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantas... by megaman22 on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:16PM (#15690792)
That, or Beren and Luthien, or the fall of Gondolin, which are the most fleshed-out episodes, as far as I remember.

The exile of the Noldor could be interesting, but iirc, it's really in the form of a Germanic saga, so it would really need a lot of filling out of details and characterization.

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