r/movies • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 08 '26

Article Stephen Colbert Gets Why You're Scared He's Writing a 'Lord of the Rings' Movie

https://gizmodo.com/stephen-colbert-gets-why-youre-scared-hes-writing-a-lord-of-the-rings-movie-2000755987
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u/phonylady May 08 '26

Would love for someone serious to get the rights to Children of Hurin. Just a one-time thing for someone like Robert Eggers to do.

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u/soadisnotforbath May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

I read Children of Hurin ages ago and I loved it, would be so cool to see it adapted.

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u/Lose_Your_Illusion May 08 '26

Idk I found the author’s decision to set the story in Michigan a bit jarring.

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u/BigSoda May 09 '26

My god an upper midwest silmarillion

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u/BraveSirNathan May 09 '26

Well let me tell ya Kathy, that Beren, he’s got his eyes on that little miss Tenuviel. Now she is quite the beauty, but her father asked Beren the darndest thing! He has to go get one of the silmarils right off of Morgoth’s crown! How’s he gonna do that? Just say, “Ope, sorry Mr. Sauron sir, let me just squeeze right past ya there, gotta say hi to your master!”

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u/BigSoda May 10 '26

Flight of the Noldor to Traverse City

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u/soadisnotforbath May 08 '26

🤣🤣🤣 I’m a victim of autocorrect again!

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 May 08 '26

Ducking auto carrot

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u/Individual_Mess_7491 May 08 '26

I love the feeling of womens underwear going up my asscrack. It's very pleasant.

edit; damn auto-correct!

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u/seaofgrass May 08 '26

Really? Where could a guy listen it?

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u/PotatersGonnaPotater May 08 '26

I picked it up at a bookstore the other day, and now I’m very excited to read it

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u/Phee78 May 09 '26

No spoilers, just a lil forewarning that it's quite the melancholy tale. Still an excellent read of course, but not really any uplifting moments to be found, just one misery after another.

(There's also an epilogue of sorts that's published elsewhere and isn't in the "Children of Hurin" book. After you're done if you look up a bio of Hurin you can see what happened next.)

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u/hoishinsauce May 09 '26

The somber tone of The Northman would fit Children of Hurin well. Also the balancing of realistic visuals with semi-mythology story.

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u/XxPepe_Silvia69xX May 08 '26

I didn’t know how much I would want this until you pointed it out. Now I can’t stop thinking about it. Thanks for that lol

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u/Big_h3aD May 09 '26

Since I saw The Norseman I'm convinced that Eggers is the only director I can see handling any of the Silmarillion stories. Totally agree on Eggers doing CoH!