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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4906130" data-attributes="member: 19675">You kind of missed my point.I conceded and expect that D&D as a product probably sells more annually than LotR, and has more visibility in the current pop culture than LotR does.However, LotR has a huge track record in publishing- many editions in English are in print, and possibly only the Bible and Koran have sold more copies in the last 50 years.  It is taught as literature in some schools.Add to that the overlapping fan base- most D&D players were going to be interested in LotR- and you have an almost guaranteed hit...assuming you do it right.And Hollywood is going to throw big money at almost any book with a strong track record like that, like the Harry Potter movies.  Or the Bible. As mentioned elsewhere, D&D also has a track record of being blamed for a lot of things in the relatively recent past- the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, the assault that happened last week- that it just doesn't have the cache and squeaky-clean history that LotR does.Its not the market for a D&D movie you have to look at, but the market for a D&D movie in which setting you have to examine.What is the size of the built-in market for Forgotten Realms?  For DarkSun?  Spelljammer?  Greyhawk?  Ravenloft?  Maztica? Eberron?Points of Light?Now compare that to the built-in market for a fantasy novel or novel series written by one (or a few) author with a 50+ year history of being on sale.Hollywood can look at Fafhrd & Grey Mouser or Elric and see potential in those much beloved novels.  When they look at D&D, they have to look at which subset of D&D they're going to work with.  The whole property is balkanized.On top of that, some of the ones with the biggest followings are already somewhat "generic" in feel in comparison to established novels that Hollywood has already looked at.</blockquote>

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