Christopher Tolkien HATES Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and was skeptical about his The Hobbit even before that became a huge disaster.
Will there ever be a Silmarillion movie?
>>66803934
>>66804013
>Invited to meet Peter Jackson, the Tolkien family preferred not to. Why? "They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25," Christopher says regretfully. "And it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film."
- Christopher Tolkien, Le Monde
How is it bait when he's on the record saying all of this?
Yeah that's what I thought.
>>66803934
It's unlikely we'll see a Silmarillion movie and that's a good thing.
>>66805082
this.
>>66803934
Tolkien estate still owns the rights to Silmarillion and Chris ain't interested in selling.
There won't be anything based on Silmarillion until it falls into public domain.
>>66805185
which will be 70 years after Chris dies, because he's co-author..
Based Tolkien family
While some of his complaints are valid, Christopher Tolkien's views on LotR are like a fundamentalist's views of the Bible. He has lived his ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIFE worshiping and living off of his father's creations and anything he has to say on the subject has always been suspect. I know there's some hairy contract / stuff with the licence but if Tolkien claims that he hasn't hugely profited from Jackson turning what was once a fad for nerds and shut ins into a billion dollar juggernaut forever ingrained in popular consciousness he's lying.
>>66804239
The Hobbit I can understand. Like, I really do. But LOTR? If he seriously didn't like the LOTR trilogy then he's nothing but a stuck up shit living entirely in his father's fame, because let's be honest; how many people actually know him for what little he added to the books and surrounding works? Very, very few people, I bet. He's just the son of who is basically the father of fantasy. I bet his father would be cool as fuck with how the LOTR films turned out.
>>66805328
I don't think so. The most important aspects for Tolkien about LotR were the different languages/poems and the mythical background he created. Things you can't really translate to film 1:1.
>Old catholic oxford professor doesn't like hollywood action flicks
>People are surprised by this
>>66805328
>"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time," Christopher Tolkien observes sadly. "The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."
As a fan of the novels, I can only say this: he is right.
Patrician taste
>>66803934
>Christopher Tolkien hated the LOTR movies
Why do the children of these greater authors and writers always become such absolute plebeians and hacks?
The LOTR film trilogy is literally perfect. The Hobbit trilogy is a steaming pile of shit.
>>66805328
>I bet his father would be cool as fuck with how the LOTR films turned out.
Eeehhhhhhhhhhh gonna have to respectfully disagree on this one. For example, these are Tolkien's notes on the script for an earlier attempt at an adaptation that turned the Weathertop scene into an action sequence the exact same way PJ did:
>Strider does not ‘Whip out a sword’ in the book. Naturally not: his sword was broken … Why then make him do so here, in a contest that was explicitly not fought with weapons?”
>“The Black Riders do not scream, but keep a more terrifying silence. Aragorn does not blanch. The riders draw slowly in on foot in darkness, and do not ‘spur’. There is no fight. Sam does not ‘sink his blade into the Ringwraith’s thigh’, nor does his thrust save Frodo’s life.”
>“A scene of gloom lit by a small red fire, with the Wraiths slowly approaching as darker shadows – until the moment when Frodo puts on the Ring, and the King steps forward revealed – would seem to me far more impressive than yet one more scene of screams and rather meaningless slashings …”
It's almost as if he's directly criticizing the PJ movie. This is a small very specific example but you can tell Tolkien would have had a lot of issues with the amount of violence and action in the movies.
>>66805492
You have to understand that no one was a bigger fan and more intimately familiar with his father's work than he was. I can definitely understand why he didn't like the film adaptations along with all the merchandising and such that followed.
>>66805447
lmao get yourself Chrissy-boi you fucking NERD
>>66805663
The story was fucking written for him.
Anyone who disagrees with him doesn't matter, he is the core audience.
>>66805185
Which will never happen because you can extend rights indefinitely.
>>66805613
He sounds like a boring old fag, who fucking read those long as stupid books anyway all they do is walk for 2 weeks and rest and walk for another 2 weeks over and over
The Lord of the Rings books bored me to death. I can't be the only one.
>>66805860
Not being alone in your terrible taste doesn't make it any less egregious.
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>>66805860
Jesus fucking Christ.
>>66805793
Only if you're Disney.
I don't think the Tolkien family is that rich or influential.
>>66806042
I think the Tolkiens could pull it off.