# So... about the next Middle Earth trilogy

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**Created:** [January 25, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-the-next-middle-earth-trilogy/710814 "2015-01-25T01:42:38Z")\
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Jackson has expressed interest in doing a film version of _The Illiad_. I think that could be a good fit for his style.

Shouldn’t take him more then 20 or 30 movies.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-the-next-middle-earth-trilogy/710814/22 "2015-01-26T15:13:06Z")

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In fact, Jackson could do the whole _Epic Cycle_, which is _The Iliad_ and _The Odyssey_ as well as some other Greek poems about that time period. Maybe this could be extended so that it included everything in Greek and Roman times up to _The Aeneid_. He could do all of Greek and Roman mythology too. This would allow him to make a movie a year for the rest of his life, so we would never have to worry about him messing with a modern author again:

> **[Epic Cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cycle)**
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> On the Greek side:
> On the Trojan side:
> The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify t...

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