{"id":966537,"date":"2026-05-17T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966537\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:43:17","slug":"jackson-may-get-to-adapt-tolkiens-silmarillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966537\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson May Get To Adapt Tolkien’s “Silmarillion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Filmmaker Peter Jackson has revealed that he has had early talks to adapt further works in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d franchise, including some previously off-limits major material like \u201cThe Silmarillion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jackson helmed the original \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d trilogy in the early 2000s followed by \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d trilogy in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n

Everything else, from Amazon\u2019s \u201cThe Rings of Power\u201d series through to the animated \u201cThe War of the Rohirrim\u201d and the upcoming films like \u201cThe Hunt for Gollum\u201d, has come from the appendices within those books.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s plenty of other material that hasn\u2019t been available \u2013 most notably \u201cThe Silmarillion\u201d \u2013 because J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s son Christopher Tolkien hated the films and even sued New Line over royalties in a legal battle that was later settled.<\/p>\n

Christopher passed away in 2020, control of the estate going to the next generation, who Jackson says are much more open to the idea. He tells Deadline<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cChristopher Tolkien edited and published other (J.R.R. Tolkien) books \u2013 The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales \u2013 I mean there\u2019s a lot more Tolkien writing that would actually make great movies that were subsequently edited and released by Christopher,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut he just absolutely not\u2026 those rights have never been available.<\/p>\n

But Christopher passed away recently, well, I suppose two or three years ago now, and the younger Tolkiens, this next generation, are now running the estate. They\u2019re much more open to talking, so a combination of Warners and us have been talking to some of the younger Tolkien members who are now part of the board, about the possibility of actually licensing the rights to some of the other books. It would be nice to get away from the appendices and get something a bit more meaty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That material likely includes the events of the First Age and the original Dark Lord of Middle-earth, Morgoth, who was ultimately defeated and banished. Sauron was Morgoth\u2019s servant\/successor. Very little from that time has been portrayed beyond the opening of the premiere episode of \u201cThe Rings of Power\u201d.<\/p>\n

Before that, Jackson has multiple projects on the way, including \u201cThe Hunt for Gollum\u201d which he will produce and the \u201cShadows of the Past\u201d film dealing with unadapted chapters of \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d. He also recently teased \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin\u201d sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Filmmaker Peter Jackson has revealed that he has had early talks to adapt further works in J.R.R.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[171891,77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-966537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116589745001048339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}