Much-anticipated adaptation would be split into three films, rather than Jackson surprised fans of JRRTolkien with his announcement that the The third film in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy has been
APA style: The Hobbit 3: Details of Title and Release Date. The Hobbit 3: Details of Title and Release Date." Retrieved from 2012 International Business Times 05 Nov. MLA style: "The Hobbit 3: Details of Title and Release Date." The Free Library. Well, at least until they do the first remake. The Hobbit trilogy and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are all we’re going to get for the foreseeable future. But it all works out fine, because PJ isn’t getting it: No The Silmarillion for us. Despite some great moments in The Hobbit, Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle Earth is very different from that in The Silmarillion. Personally, I call this good news: I’m no mega-fan of The Hobbit indeed, I thought it was pretty dreadful throughout. Not a great incentive to sell off the few film rights they still own. He’s very protective of his father’s legacy, and it doesn’t help that the Tolkien family got a little screwed on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, financially speaking. He has explicitly said that he won’t let Jackson get the rights… and won’t sell them to anyone who might sell the rights to Jackson. Those rights are still firmly in the hands of Christopher Tolkien, and he is… not fond of Jackson or his take on Middle-Earth. Jackson isn’t allowed to make a Silmarillion movie, for the simple reason that he doesn’t own the rights. Jackson could easily whip up a trilogy out of The Silmarillion. But… he can’t. But it still has lots of stories in it that would fit into film: The tale of the Children of Hurin, or Beren and Luthien, or of the Fall of Gondolin. It’s a different kind of epic fantasy, more like a religious text than a novel. 
Compared to LOTR and The Hobbit, The Silmarillion feels much more… remote and alien (disclaimer: It’s one of my favorite books in the world). The Silmarillion covers thousands of years at least (which certainly doesn’t make a movie any easier), but the meat of it is the history of the five hundred year long First Age and the war for the Silmarils, sacred jewels Morgoth stole from the Elves.
For the unfamiliar, The Silmarillion is the tale of the early days of Middle-Earth, starting before its creation, and continuing through the legends of the great wars between the Elves and Morgoth (cursed be his name), Sauron’s master. And that’s probably a good thing: The Silmarillion is a very different kind of story than Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, and it’s not nearly as well-known. Despite the incredible success of The Hobbit film trilogy, the final great tale of Middle-Earth is going to remain beyond Jackson’s reach.
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