Been on Youtube but also on google where I did a bit of digging and I found out that a remake of The Neverending Story is in the works at WB...Nothing else has been said of late and I don't expect anything concrete will happen in a few years from now.
I watched the Coronation scene where Aragorn becomes King Elessar in Return of the King...and from that part to when everyone bows to the four hobbits, I just ....couldn't help it. Every damn time I see that scene towards the end, I get so emotional.
I am a big Lord of the Rings fan and as well as a Tolkien fan of his work... The hobbit movies weren't that epic in scale compared to Lord of the Rings. But the way I look at it, LOTR was more of the larger story - the bigger picture because of the threat that Middle-earth was facing. Whereas the Hobbit was more of a smaller story about a group of Dwarves journeying back to their homeland to claim what was theirs from the Dragon Smaug. I don't think it was even meant to be as epic as LOTR...to me the Hobbit story was more of a personal journey to Thorin and Co considering you didn't have like 30+ characters to deal with like they had in LOTR. The hobbit films were good in their own right but as for holding a candle to LOTR? Not even close.
I loved the first Hobbit cause I thought it stayed true to the book but the last two parts...strayed too far from the book itself...it just seemed too stretched out like a piece of bread that had way too much butter on it. *shrugs*
While I know this won't happen in the long run, I would like to see the story of Beren and Luthien be told on screen...because their story had a lot more meaning than Aragorn and Arwen's. Beren was a mortal who fell in love with an elf maiden, Luthien Tinuviel. That's not the only part I want to see, but how Beren faces off Morgoth when he stole the gem that was the last Silmarillion. In the process, he dies in the arms of Luthien towards the end and even a bit before that, they pledge their love for one another. The thing that makes their story interesting is that their story echos through Aragorn and Arwen.