[Kalimac]

Saucepan Man - tell you what, they can treat Feanor like "Brazil" - one dark cut which becomes a cult film, then one Love Conquers All version which is sliced to ribbons for television viewing, which is disowned by the director, and becomes an unintentional comedy classic. <P>Tar-Alcarin - I doubt that Europeans are fundamentally more comfortable about the idea of sleeping with one's sister than Americans are. Considering the circumstances, I'd say Americans would be about as comfortable as anyone is - that is, about the same comfort level exhibited by watching the Oedipus cycle. Now, if they were intentionally committing incest, that would be pretty off-putting for Americans, but I'm guessing that would be true of other nationalities as well. <P>I guess my main objection the idea of a Silmarillion film is that it would involve inventing huge amounts of dialogue; I mean, there is dialogue in it, but mostly at the very high points of the story and heavily stylized. LOTR was much, much more conversational and even there the filmmakers had to come up with some filler, and they did not always do a bang-up job of it. And the lack of hobbits as intermediaries between us and the really foreign world of ME could be awkward.