One Hobbit Good, Two Hobbits Bad

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Yes, but they had free reign to make up whatever story they wanted. Someone can come in and do a little potpourri of scenes from all the various events between The Hobbit and LOTR, but they will still have to put it together and make a story out of it. I think the point is that since there is no story, one is going to have to be "invented." However, just because they would use the same names and have it set in Middle-earth and call it The Lord of the Rings, doesn't make it The Lord of the Rings.

Indeed, it would be that Lord of the Rings was just another brand name like Coke or Gap that could be sold to make more money. The reason people love Tolkien is that he gave us these great stories, why would people want to see something that wasn't one of his stories but had all the right Brand Names in place?

A lot of things that are good were halted at their height - Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Mr Benn, etc. They never became stale or boring. Compare that with the ongoing flogging of a dead horse that you get from things like Mr Bean; even The Simpsons is way less harp than it used to be - they even have Ricky "I'm in everything" Gervais in it reprising his David Brent persona for the 1000th time.

A film of The Hobbit would be worthwhile. A film of random notes is pushing it way too far - like butter scraped over too much bread.

Maybe the thought of this morphing of the characters into mere brand names has been the straw which broke the Estate's back and they have finally laid the smack down?