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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Athiev" data-source="post: 9260172" data-attributes="member: 6982505">Presumably, the relevant information would be recent sales for the novels, rather than sales figures from many decades ago. Today, the first Dragonlance novel ranks 1,163,278 among books on Amazon. This is in comparison with the Fellowship of the Rings, which looks like it ranks 2,538. At this time, there's probably an intense but relatively small audience for Dragonlance --- which is a challenging starting place for a media production.Dragonlance seems to trail behind even some other fairly niche fantasy titles in current sales. For example, the first part of OS Card's deeply targeted Joseph Smith alternative history Alvin Maker series ranks 152,334. It's very hard to imagine a successful adaptation of that series, and the evidence suggests that Dragonlance currently has an even smaller audience.Of course, there were people who bought the books back in the day. An open question is how much enthusiasm those people generally retain for the series? Would they watch a movie? Stick with a TV show? Or would it be less successful than a bigger-name series like the Shannara Chronicles show from 8 or so years ago?</blockquote>