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Originally Posted by davem
Well, it won't be as the book - I expect something in the style of LotR, more 'adult' & serious. Hence the spirit of the book will be lost. I would assume that any backstory would have to avoid the storyline of Quest of Erebor & come up with a new one, as that material was not sold by Tolkien, & expect the Estate would sue over copyright.
Inventing new material is hardly an issue in light of LotR, where characters, motivations & storylines were altered willy nilly.
The most surprising thing as far as I'm concerned is that they're only going for two movies - aren't trilogies the thing these days?
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Should he even be allowed to make a movie about a book that is so earnestly
not a part of the Legendarium?
09-28-2006, 03:20 PM
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