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Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (LotR), etc.
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The problem is that this will always be too complicated for your average movie goer. LOTR works because it has big, epic set pieces which all connect via a handful of characters. The would-be silmarillion equivalents have a lot of shaky continuity which would require a lot of interpolation if told from the ground up.