If JRR Tolkien is still alive, LOTR's breadth and scope will be that of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.
The fact that Robert Jordan is alive and kicking (even health issues such as amyloidosis can't stop the non-tiring author --> Godspeed, man!) only means expansion of his universe is of daily construction. There are 11 and counting THICK books (other accompanying books not included)to prove this.
I've been stuck to Book 4: The Shadow Rising for almost 2 years now. And it's not because the book is bad. In fact, it's so darn interesting. But the inevitable circumstances such as work, movies, other books, and sleep, keep delaying me from finishing the thing.
The book is filled with so much detail that if you forgot about those details, you have to go back and read again so that you can catch up where the story is heading to. And that's what has been happening to me for the past two years.
Anyway, I'm a fan of anime and God knows how overworked my Full Metal Alchemist VCDs are. I also love Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Girl from Hell, and now my current fave is Blood +.
One afternoon while I was retracing my steps back to the Jordan's world, I was thinking that this series would make a very wonderful anime.
Why anime? Well, it's so impossible to make this into a movie due to the details and the length of the story. It's like making Tolkien's Silmarillion into a movie too (not a thick book but filled with so much detail). It's possible to make this as a TV series, but then i fear it might be done cheesily and that will be a big waste.
What makes this attractive as an anime is that the capabilities of the characters and the settings would be unlimited. You can make anything unimaginable in reality possible here.
There are wonderful anime directors out there who can make this one hell of a series. After all, anime directors are no strangers to magic, demons, magic swords, strange creatures, and virtual unknowns turning into something like a Dragon.
And besides, I'm too tired of re-reading this again and I want to move forward. If I only have a DVD copy of this (if it will ever exist)my journey with Rand Al'Thor wouldn't be as long as his.
