Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
And here the Silmarillion would make a perfect prelude to The Hobbit and they're gonna invent shit instead. Dumb move, Pete.

Uh, no, the Silmarillion would not make a perfect prelude. Many people were bored with the "3 endings" of ROTK. I shudder what those same people would do during the first 3 chapters of the Silmarillion.

A friend of mine put it perfectly. "Reading the Silmarillion is like eating sand". Yes, that's how dry that book is. Sure, there's content there, but you'd have to make it good enough that a vast majority of moviegoers would actually want to see it. Considering the changes they made to TTT and ROTK, making something up is probably better than having them adapt the Silmarillion.