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Originally Posted by Tidesson
Well, this is what happens when you opt to put a long book story into major feature films. In my opinion, it may have been better if PJ opted to make The Hobbit - even LOTR - into a miniseries. Or perhaps in George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" format on HBO.
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I'm with Bethberry here. The last thing we need is to give Jackson
more time to fill with pointless action and new characters.
The Hobbit is a short book; I'd say that the optimal length for a cinematic adaptation of it would be something like three hours.
The Lord of the Rings could work better as a miniseries, though not a long one.
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The Silmarillion, on the other hand, a miniseries probably would be the optimal form of adaptation. It would be a fairly unconventional one, though - I imagine several blocks of 6-8 episodes, each telling a single story with largely its own set of characters (Flight of the Noldor, Beren & Luthien, Turin, etc.), with a few standalone episodes for things like the story of Eol and Aredhel. Perhaps a few of those standalone episodes could even be in the style of a historical documentary (e.g. The Great March, The Coming of Men into the West).