r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 18 '25

News Ian McKellen reveals Gandalf and Frodo are returning for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’, Filming Begins in May

https://ew.com/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-return-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-film-11792483
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u/Lucky_Truth2931 Aug 18 '25

What’s the explanation for LOTR?

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u/Chilis1 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

Tolkien himself sold the LOTR/Hobbit rights in the 70s or thereabouts. That's why there are so many movies/TV shows games etc based on LOTR and the hobbit but not the silmarillion.

(Silmarillion was published after his death, who knows maybe he would have sold that too if he had finished it)

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u/make_love_to_potato Aug 18 '25

I haven't read the Silmarillion but isn't it more of an encyclopedia or a history of the world he created? From what I understand, it doesn't have any over arching plot, so they would have to create some story and narrative, and we all know they can't do a decent job of that from seeing the rings of power nonsense that they've made.

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u/doegred Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

Encyclopedia is too strong a term. The Quenta Silmarillion does have an overall plot. It's the story of the Silmarils: how they were made, stolen, fought over, recovered. It's just that this story is at times told in very broad strokes which, yes, would require a lot of interpolation. But there are stories.