# Peter Jackson gets the rights to The Silmarillion as a single 3 hour movie. Do you watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892 "2016-01-01T12:23:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892/41 "2016-01-04T15:19:15Z")
If any single book ever needed to be stretched out into three films, it would be _The Silmarillion_. There’s no way anyone could do justice to it in three hours, so I’d pass. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892/42 "2016-01-04T19:12:17Z")
> [@blue\_infinity](#): > > You can’t make a single movie out of the Silmarillion. We’re talking about 500 years of history, with several separate sets of characters. > > You can make a movie about Feanor, and a movie about Beren and Luthien, and a movie about Turin, and a movie about the Fall of Gondolin. These all follow discrete events with a reasonable time frame, and a conventional story arc. Beginning, middle, conclusion. > > . Right, and Jackson certainly could make a film out of any of those. But why just one 3 hour film? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892/43 "2016-01-04T19:14:50Z")
> [@blue\_infinity](#): > > What he should have added was plot. What he added instead were set action pieces. He did add plot. In fact his addition of the Necromancer was critical- since it was why Gandalf searched out Thorin, and it’s the why and wherefore behind the whole thing. Yeah sure, Jackson also added some unnecessary action scenes, and a love story that makes no sense, but his addition of the White Council was brilliant, well done and critical. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892/44 "2016-01-04T19:16:46Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > “…Look, the book doesn’t say Radagast didn’t have a rabbit sleigh, so he does.” > > “…Look, the book doesn’t say were-worms couldn’t tunnel hundreds of miles in a few days, so they can.” Rabbit sleigh was fun, and it was nice to see Radagast. But the worms were a bit much. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892/45 "2016-01-04T21:26:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > But the worms were a bit much. When the worms showed up I was waiting for Fremen wielding crysknives to attack… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892/46 "2016-01-04T21:43:49Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > . . . But the worms were a bit much. Even Dain seemed to think so. When he growled, “Oh, come on,” I laughed out loud in the theater. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-gets-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-as-a-single-3-hour-movie-do-you-watch/741892.md?page=2)