'The Lord of the Rings' Director Peter Jackson May Finally Get the Rights to Tolkien’s Most Untouchable Book

‘The Lord of the Rings’ Director Peter Jackson Could Finally Enter Tolkien’s Forbidden Chapter

For years, one major part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world seemed almost impossible to bring to the big screen. Peter Jackson turned The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit into massive movie franchises, but there was always one major piece of Middle-earth that remained out of his reach: The Silmarillion. That could finally be changing....

'The Lord of the Rings' Director Peter Jackson May Finally Get the Rights to Tolkien’s Most Untouchable Book

Middle-earth has given Peter Jackson nearly everything a filmmaker could ask for, from box office records to a permanent place in cinema history alongside ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ trilogies. Yet for all that success, one corner of J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology has remained stubbornly out of reach for decades. That corner belongs...