CT participate in HOBBIT films?

[davem]

On the specific point:

Originally Posted by Sauron the White

I am not talking about a movie about Goldolin simply because Elrond mentions it in THE HOBBIT. I am not talking about a movie about Beren and Luthien and the silmarils simply because Aragorn sings about it in LOTR. But the White Councils dealings with the rise of the Necromancer, the assault on Dol guldur, the Erebor events and other material would be relevant and subject for inclusion.

I don't see any of that as being part of TH as such, but rather part of the later development of the Legendarium which came about as a result of the writing of LotR & its integration into the Legendarium. TH was not written as part of the Legendarium (as CT has stated, & he intentionally left out analysis of it in HoM-e) & is best seen & treated as a stand alone work. To introduce these 'darker', more complex themes into a move of TH would make the more 'fairy story' aspects of TH (Beorn's animals, talking birds etc) too difficult to integrate convincingly. Hence, for a movie of TH none of the material you mention is necessary.

On your more general point, I honestly don't care what kind of a pig's ear Jackson/New Line make of their 'Hobbit' movies, & I'm fairly sure that if they had access to every single thing Tolkien wrote they'd still fill them with the kind of inanities they filled LotR with.

And the real point, as Mr Hicklin as pointed out, is that it ain't gonna happen.