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Pour revenir au cinéma, avez-vous discuté avec Peter Jackson de faire Le Silmarillion après Le Hobbit ?
Non, car les droits d'adaptation ne sont pas disponibles, ils appartiennent à la famille de Tolkien. Ce n'est pas possible pour l'instant. Mais je ne préfère pas : je ne vois pas très bien comment le faire au cinéma. Une série télé très limitée, peut-être ? Avec de très gros moyens, évidemment. Mais comme Le Silmarillion est très épisodique, très linéaire, c'est difficile. Ca reste d'abord une question de droits.

I think Bilbo is ambiguously gendered. He’s always referred to as “he,” but he keeps house and cooks, he isn’t brave except at a pinch—he’s brave without being at all macho, nor is his lack of machismo deprecated by the text, even when contrasted with the martial dwarves. Bilbo’s allowed to be afraid. He has whole rooms full of clothes. There’s a lot of the conventionally feminine in Bilbo, and there’s a reading here in which Bilbo is a timid houseproud cooking hostess who discovers more facets on an adventure. (I’m sure I could do something with the buttons popping off too if I tried hard enough.) Unlike most heroes, it really wouldn’t change Bilbo at all if you changed his pronoun. Now isn’t that an interesting thought to go rushing off behind without even a pocket handkerchief?

Literally, as well as figuratively: As the Noldor try to rally and regroup and gather what allies they can for a retaliation against Morgoth, the Dark Lord proves that he’s been thinking about war a lot more than they have and still has untold strength. And in this chapter, his arm grows long indeed, reaching out of Thangorodrim to the far ends of Beleriand. And, oh, yeah: the father of dragons is back for more.