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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8806665" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Playing around with how to do the Silmarillion as a TV show...</p><p></p><p>One idea would be to do it as a frame story, with Earendil telling it to the Valar in the Ring of Doom. This would address the problem where the end of the story is literally a <em>deus ex machina</em>; the frame sets it up from the very beginning.</p><p></p><p>This would also make it possible to finesse the chronology of events. Earendil could tell several stories in parallel (Beren and Luthien, the Children of Hurin, the deeds of Feanor's sons, etc.), in response to questions from the Valar; thus the show could maintain a mostly-stable cast, despite telling stories separated by centuries. Occasionally, Earendil might ask a question of his own, which would allow the Valar or Valinorean Elves to provide flashbacks to before the Darkening of Valinor.</p><p></p><p>Earendil would stagger his stories; say he's got three running at any given point, each season he wraps up one and starts another. Beren and Luthien would be the one story that ran the entire length of the series. It would conclude with their deaths* along with the retrieval of a Silmaril, which Earendil would then bring out and present to the Valar as he makes his plea for them to intervene. The actual War of Wrath would be just a brief montage at the end--the conclusion would be Earendil being given the Silmaril to carry in Vingilot across the sky. (And maybe a scene of Galadriel pointing out the star to a youthful Elrond, which would nicely tie the Silmarillion to both the Peter Jackson movies and the Rings of Power.)</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">*Their first deaths, obviously. Trying to work in their resurrection and second deaths would make the story unnecessarily confusing without really adding anything IMO.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8806665, member: 58197"] Playing around with how to do the Silmarillion as a TV show... One idea would be to do it as a frame story, with Earendil telling it to the Valar in the Ring of Doom. This would address the problem where the end of the story is literally a [I]deus ex machina[/I]; the frame sets it up from the very beginning. This would also make it possible to finesse the chronology of events. Earendil could tell several stories in parallel (Beren and Luthien, the Children of Hurin, the deeds of Feanor's sons, etc.), in response to questions from the Valar; thus the show could maintain a mostly-stable cast, despite telling stories separated by centuries. Occasionally, Earendil might ask a question of his own, which would allow the Valar or Valinorean Elves to provide flashbacks to before the Darkening of Valinor. Earendil would stagger his stories; say he's got three running at any given point, each season he wraps up one and starts another. Beren and Luthien would be the one story that ran the entire length of the series. It would conclude with their deaths* along with the retrieval of a Silmaril, which Earendil would then bring out and present to the Valar as he makes his plea for them to intervene. The actual War of Wrath would be just a brief montage at the end--the conclusion would be Earendil being given the Silmaril to carry in Vingilot across the sky. (And maybe a scene of Galadriel pointing out the star to a youthful Elrond, which would nicely tie the Silmarillion to both the Peter Jackson movies and the Rings of Power.) [SIZE=3]*Their first deaths, obviously. Trying to work in their resurrection and second deaths would make the story unnecessarily confusing without really adding anything IMO.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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