Movie remakes?

[Encaitare]

I do hope that a Silm movie will be made (best of luck to you, Saraphim, I'm sure it'll be great!) but I'm glad at least I've read the book already and have been able to create my own images of everything (which I unfortunately did not do with FotR and TTT).

True, Narn i Hin Hurin has got everything... even romance! Incestuous, perhaps, but awww... didn't Turin and Nienor make such a lovely couple?

I would love to see the Lay of Leithian made into a movie even more, though, just because it's my favorite.

[Knight of Gondor]

Yeah, if you make a movie, you've got to hold auditions from your fellow BDers!

[Saraphim]

Of course! The BD'ers are all my first pick, both for acting and behind-the-scenes work. I need all the help I can get, especially from fans like you guys.
The Children of Hurin tale is a must, and of course I can't leave out Beren and Luthien, because in addition to being really amazing, it is directly linked to the plot.

Yes, I have been worrying about the Valar, gorthaur_cruel. I simply cannot imagine how to show them, or the Creation of Arda, even though I have a clear picture in my mind about it. Also, you're right about the fact that none of the stories of the Elves have clear beginnings or endings. In fact, the whole book has no clear ending, at least one that can easily be shown in movie form anyway.

Difficulties. Ah well. If I do not find a way, someone will.

[Morsul the Dark]

We believe in you. I am sure the vakar though deficult can be portrayed. perhaps elf-like they create elves in their image Yavanna kind of entish Ale(created Dwarfs?) kindof dwarflike make them look like their creations you know kind of like I created these people after my own image thing....Thats confusing but do you know what I mean?

[Saraphim]

That's a splendid idea Morsul! See, I knew what I was doing when I mentioned it on the Downs!

[Neferchoirwen]

Originally Posted by Encaitare

I do hope that a Silm movie will be made (best of luck to you, Saraphim, I'm sure it'll be great!) but I'm glad at least I've read the book already and have been able to create my own images of everything (which I unfortunately did not do with FotR and TTT).

True, Narn i Hin Hurin has got everything... even romance! Incestuous, perhaps, but awww... didn't Turin and Nienor make such a lovely couple?

I would love to see the Lay of Leithian made into a movie even more, though, just because it's my favorite.

How about a Silmariliom mini series? For Hallmark? Hallmark gets as close to the books as they can get.

[Encaitare]

ARGH! I had a great list of links to Valar art, and just lost it all. So here it is again. As I was saying ere my ridiculous computer lost the whole thing, I see the Valar as mighty and intimidating yet kindly, and the Valier as beautiful yet strong and gentle. Since they apparently enjoy taking Elvish forms, that's how I would portray them. Here's a bunch of pics I found using a Google image search.

Varda (there are so many pretty ones of her out there!):

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo..._and_manwe.jpg

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mithra...ages/Varda.jpg

http://www.ginevra2000.it/Fantasy/Fairies/Lites1.jpg

Manwe:

http://www.mikeljanin.net/imagepages/Manwe.html

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...inen/Manwe.jpg

Ulmo (so many cool ones!):

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...h/sil-ulmo.jpg (my personal fave of Ulmo, I think this is the best I've seen anywhere)

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...rland/ulmo.jpg

http://www.tlotr.com/fan_art/ulmo_dgovar.jpg

Yavanna:

http://www.mikeljanin.net/imagepages/Yavanna.html (I think this one's perfect for her)

Aule:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...kitin/Aule.jpg

http://img-fan.theonering.net/middle...s/aule_tns.jpg

Orome:

http://www.mikeljanin.net/imagepages/Orome.html

Irmo: --

Nienna:

http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/elgaladna/Nienna.JPG

http://img-fan.theonering.net/middle...enna_govar.jpg

Mandos: -- I didn't really see anything that struck my fancy.

Tulkas:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/middle...lkas_govar.jpg

Este:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...apiro/Este.jpg

Vaire: -- none

Vana: -- searching for this only found me, let's say, questionable material

Nessa:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...piro/Nessa.jpg

And let us not forget Morgoth, the Dark-Lord-formerly-known-as-Vala:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo...owe/melkor.jpg

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo.../challenge.jpg (Morgoth and Fingolfin)

Some good pictures can be found here: http://fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/valar.html

Hope some of these aided!

~Encaitare

[Child of the 7th Age]

You might enjoy reading the following article. It agrees with you that a "remake" will be done and suggests some things that will be involved with that.

Click here.

[Encaitare]

An interesting article, Child.

I can think of several actors who could have done as good a job portraying Gandalf: Sean Connery, Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Patrick Stewart

GAH! NO! This I wholeheartedly disagree with, at least the Sean Connery bit. And Patrick Stewart (wow, I just wrote "Steward" by accident... LotR..overload..). They're brilliant actors, but somehow I can't see them being Gandalf. Patrick Stewart just always makes me think Captain Picard, and probably always will.

But yes, a remake probably will be done. No doubt it will be great, and hopefully more true to the books, but I think it's a little early to be worrying a full remake just yet.

[Boromir88]

Nefer wrote:

How about a Silmariliom mini series? For Hallmark? Hallmark gets as close to the books as they can get.

I don't know about a Silmarillion mini series, I've always thought an LOTR mini series would be neat. Maybe one could make a mini series on the Sil, it might not get much ratings since there are definately not as many Tolkien readers as Orli fans, but I think it would be interesting, The Sil has a lot more "action" you might put it, but I think remembering the names, and lineage would just get too confusing, you can get confused by even reading it.

As for the LOTR mini series, this is what I thought would be neat, it would be based solely on the books, so you will have of course the book people watching it, yet now with PJ's movie it has dragged in more "orli fans" to read Tolkien so now they will see a mini series based on the books. I mean one with nothing cut out, no people, no events, no places cut out. So now people wouldn't have to fear the big 1000 page book and could see it in front of them, and would be getting the "knowledge of the books" something one couldn't get from the movies (no matter how good the movies were).

[Encaitare]

Maybe one could make a mini series on the Sil, it might not get much ratings since there are definately not as many Tolkien readers as Orli fans, but I think it would be interesting, The Sil has a lot more "action" you might put it, but I think remembering the names, and lineage would just get too confusing, you can get confused by even reading it.

Yeah, it's the kind of thing you definitely have to read multiple times before really understanding it. The first time through I was bored with a lot of it but just kept pressing on, and then through rereading it I've found it to be a great read and not *that* hard to understand. The names still get me sometimes, though... darnit, why do they all have to have names that sound alike??

As for the Orli fans... maybe we could offer good ol' Orli a minor role... one of Feanor's sons that no one remembers, for example. Maybe Amras. Seriously, though, if he was in it, it would spoil it for the "real" fans because then all the rabid fangirls would come and be all, "Oh mY gOd I liEk Am SuCh A tOlKeEn FaN i hAvE sEen tHe SiLrIoN (tHaT's wHaT iTs CaLlEd, RiTe?) aNd OrLaNdO bLoOm WaS liEk sOoO hOtT! OMG i Am sUcH a GeEk fOr LiEkInG tHiS bUt OrLi iS mAh BaBi..." and so on and so forth. (How do people type like that, nonstop?? It takes forever!)