No motion pictures, no.

At 76, J.R.R. Tolkien sat down- well, The Telegraph interviewer sat, Tolkien paced and waved his pipe- for the sort of long article one rarely sees any more. One thing Tolkien was emphatic about:

He feels strongly that the Ring should not be filmed: “You can’t cramp narrative into dramatic form. It would be easier to film The Odyssey. Much less happens in it. Only a few storms.”