This takes place at the end of the Silmarillion, I won’t reveal the plot, but for those who know it, what do you think of this idea?
Obviously you couldn’t make a movie of all the Silmarillion, but Akalabeth is a story in and of itself.
I think it could be done, but it would take a lot of work. The cast would have to be all different, and the setting would be completley different.
Or better yet, make a movie version of the game. Can your X shaped guy make it past all the green stuff to get in the white square before the guards get him? Maybe Lord British can help you! 
Seriously, I think the more obvious choice would be Beren and Luthien if you were going to make a movie from The Silmarillion–the story’s already been mentioned in the films, etc.
Wouldn’t mind seeing the reshaping of the world, though. That would be very cool.
I like the idea of making more films based on the LotR mythology. As others have said, though, most of the stories in The Silmarillion* are intended to be tragedies in the Greek style. Such stories don’t usually lend themselves well to 21st-century American movie-going audiences that want uplifting stories with happy endings, a love story, etc.
There is also the matter that in these stories, there are none of the LotR characters that people will recognize. And there’s the complicated matter of explaining who the Numenorians are, who the Valar are, and a whole host of other backstories. Were it not for Star Wars Episodes I-III, I might have made the blanket statement that prequels don’t work at all.
I think the trickiest thing about making Beren and Luthien would be all the backstory you really NEED to get what’s going on-- like who Morgoth is, who Feanor and his sons are, what the significance of the Silmarils is, etc.
Blanket away. I don’t see anything to suggest that Eps. I-III work. (They COULD have worked, maybe …)
Someday I’m going to get a voice version of the Silmarillion. I hope it has the last two paragraphs of the Akallabeth, imho the BEST closing of ANY story I’ve ever read.
That would be the best part of a film adaptation, if they used the ending as a voiceover at the end…sigh…
Agreed,
and yes it is in there.
Get the CD version cause the tapes go wonky over time.
I second Lithium. The CD version of Silmarillion brings chills to my spine.
OK, maybe not the chapter on the ordering of Beleriand. But the rest of the CD version does!
Strangely enough I have always seen Beren and Luthien as a good basis for a ballet; many scenes have movement built in, in fact the most important dramatic events are the dances of Luthien in the woods and in Thangorodrim…
as a dramatic film, it would seem odd to modern sensibilities, but as an early 20th century ballet, it would work.
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