Thanks for the extensive reply! Yeah, I’m one of those weirdos who loved the Silmarillion, even as a teenager. I guess I’ve read it about 4x over the years, and I generally found it way more rational and absorbing than something like Le Morte d’Arthur.

Trying to cover the whole book seems insane to me, but as mentioned above, I feel like major stories and chapters could very easily be turned in to some kind of effective adaptation. They more or less stand alone, compared to the brutal, endless slog of the overall elves against Morgoth arcs.

The time seems (and has seemed) really ripe for such stories to be told, that I hope the Estate can move forward in some useful way upon such stuff. That said, I can very much understand their unhappiness with Jackson’s TLotR movies, which were good, but way too ‘Hollywood’ for my taste across various scenes. I actually enjoyed the ‘making of’ mini-movies in the deluxe set far more than the movies themselves…