re: Official Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug Review Thread (spoilers)

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The LOTR trilogy and the Hobbit were the only really popular works by Tolkien on Middle Earth. The Simarillion is out there but was probably never intended to be published (done posthumously by his son) and it is fairly unreadable by comparison.

I suppose if someone had the rights and wanted to go full George Lucas they could do another movie based on the original vanquishing of Sauron, the conversion of Gandalf the Grey into Gandalf the White, or the corruption of Sarumon but those would seem like incomplete and unsatisfying efforts compared to what's already been done.

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I have read The Silmarillion twice and loved it. I couldn't put it down. There is so, so much in there that could be made into many different movies. I would be most interested in seeing a movie about the events that occur in Valinor before Feanor leads them back across the sea. I also want to see Feanor and his descendants battle with Morgoth (Sauron was his first lieutenant and definitely inferior), and the story of the men of Beleriand and their meeting with the elves, of the two union of elf and man, of their separate offspring, Earendil and Elwing, who married and produced Elrond and Elros (ancestor of Aragorn) before using the last remaining Simaril to find their way back to Valinor, beg the Valar for forgiveness, and get their help to destroy Morgoth once and for all. Then the story of the rise and fall of Numenor, of their corruption by Sauron, of their rebellion against Valinor. The ancient history of the world Tolkien created is far more interesting to me than the events that occur in the Hobbit and LOTR, though I love that story as well.