I can’t see how The Silmarillion could work as a single film, given how it is structured.

Would really be best done in several discrete films, and they don’t even need to be named “Silmarillion”. Heck, you could probably make several films just from the Morgoth wars, never mind the other stories… Plenty of material without stretching it too thin like they did to The Hobbit.

Regional Australia (New South Wales).

Petrol prices are the highest I’ve ever seen. I guess that’s true everywhere.

But also, on Weds when we went to Canberra we drove past two petrol stations with their signs turned off (suggesting they were completely out) — one in the city and one in the country. I’ve never seen that before. The country station was back on when we passed again a couple of hours later.