I still can’t stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That’s a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they’re fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply because, there will be so much improvised fluff in that would-be film, that it’d make the Hobbit films blush.
GRRM did derail the whole thing into such a relentlessly boring clusterfuck of “white girl goes and tries to fix the middle east” that the books will never recover either. If there was even an outside shot of ever seeing another release, I mean, which obviously there isn’t.
He’s done the software engineering thing of turning the work into such an incredibly overdone piece of shit that it’s not tempting to work on anymore, and therefore he evidently won’t.