CT participate in HOBBIT films?

[Galin]

Sauron the White wrote: '... Nope. Nothing less than a word for word, page for page translation would have pleased some folks and even then we would have heard how they got the first 26 hours pretty spot on but them mixed up the speech on page 1046.'

Well, no one I have ever read has ever argued for such a thing. I would think David Bratman speaks for many when he writes...

'I can cite you three Austen scholars who hold that "Clueless" is more faithful to the spirit of Austen than any of the actual Austen adaptations. In fact I did cite them: see p. 32-33 of my essay in Tolkien on Film'.

The point, of course, being that faithfulness to the spirit is not the same as strict adherence to the text. So when we criticize Jackson for lacking the spirit, it doesn't mean we're demanding that he make a literalist adaptation. (...) A film of a book that is _too_ faithful to the text is likely to be stultified and boring. The adaptation process does require a creative imagination. I ask only that this creative imagination be faithful to the spirit of the text.'