Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantasy Novels

Re:Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantas... by vlunkr on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:17PM (#15689258)

If this means they will be adapting some of the Silmarillion stories then I might be on board. There are some great sketches of stories there that unfortunately were not completed in Tolkien's lifetime. I would love to see them fleshed out.

When publishing these, they try not to modify the original writings, which is nice, but also frustrating, because they aren't written in a way that Tolkien deemed them ready for publishing. What I would really love is for them to publish the originals, but also give them to other fantasy authors and let them adapt it into a complete novel. A TV show is less exciting (for me), but could be interesting.

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Re:Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantas... by cannonedhamster on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:11PM (#15689769)

If they took a (less horrifying) Black Mirror approach where it was stories in the same universe that could be interesting, but I don't think it would play. There's a lot of story fruit still in LOTR universe that hasn't been plucked yet, so I think that they could do something really good that was episodic as well, but I suspect it will end up closer to "Legend of the Seeker" than something with a good, lasting story.

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Re:Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s Globally Renowned Fantas... by krapp on Monday November 13, 2017 @07:11PM (#15691465)

We'd just end up with Sexy Shelob, though.

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