Comments on: Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Hobbit”

By: George Pedrosa

George Pedrosa — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:44:29 +0000

Your comparison between The Hobbit and the occupation of Iraq is cheer genius. Congratulations!

By: Lou Anders

Lou Anders — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:07:04 +0000

Well, before we heard about the GRRM series, I was saying they should d take the Silmarrillion and the various stories in the ten book history from Christopher and develop them for HBO.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:36:19 +0000

I happen to think that a film version of The Silmarillion isn’t impossible. You’d just need to do it as a handful of interconnected stories. Personally I think an animated (anime?) version would work the best, but a serial TV thing could work too.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:22:17 +0000

Odd, but I’ve found that people who are infatuated with The Hobbit really can’t get into much of Tolkien’s heavier works (such as Silmarillion, like you mentioned), or vice versa. Some of Tolkien’s more sprawling histories and generational tales can be a bit hard to follow, though they provide a more impressive undertaking. I do wonder what the film version of the Hobbit is going to turn out like, especially now that it seems Peter Jackson has been yoinked from the project. Let’s see someone try a film of the Silmarillion…hmm

By: John Farrell

John Farrell — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:27:23 +0000

Yes—but remember, Tolkien himself regretted the whole tone of the Hobbit in later years. He wrote it for his children and on a very ad-hoc basis.