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   From: rast2@yahoo.com   
      
   Troels Forchhammer wrote...   
   > Yes, I think it would be impossible to make a single film of /The   
   > Silmarillion/ -- the characters change too much about, and if the   
   > film-makers would choose to reduce the cast to a couple of handfuls   
   > of common characters . . . well, /if/ they were charged with making   
   > one or two films based on /The Silmarillion/, I think it would make   
   > sense to do this, but I don't think I would take lightly to seeing   
   > that . . .   
      
   How about: elevate Beleg and Mablung to main characters, then film only   
   the parts they appear in.  End with Beren's recovery of the Silmaril   
   from the Dwarves.   
      
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