The Rings of Power episodes 1&2: Melkor Makes a TV Show
You would have to have had the hubris of Morgoth himself to take on this project. As a writer, I would have been terrified of it. . If the producers had come to me to finish the Unfinished Tales by Tolkien plus some original pastiche based on the Appendixes, I wouldn't have touched it. A professional screenwriter said he would have told them. “Look, I’ll require two years of prep time before I write word one. I’ll need to completely immerse myself in...