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Originally Posted by TheLostPilgrim

I think the film would've made a classic, very very odd but classic Fantasy film. Would it have been a good LOTR adaptation? Absolutely not! But it may have been a great fantasy film in it's own right. As a LOTR adaptation it's a disaster, but as a fantasy film it probably would've worked, IMHO.

If it wouldn't have been a good LOTR adaptation, it's better off as a dead idea. If people want to make fantasy films, let them. But all too often what you have in adaptations is film directors and movie moguls basically "adapting" the existing story so freely it could have just as well been unrelated to the supposed source. Then again, unless you give it the name of a well-known and loved book, it isn't as likely to be successful.

LOTR is utterly unfilmable to me, in that the feel of the book simply cannot be replicated in another medium by anyone, no matter how many Bentleys in their garage or Oscars on their mantelpiece.