I'm a huge fan of the GoT books. I refuse to watch the series until the last book has been released (though none of us may live that long). I might watch the prequel series though.

I liked the Lord of the Rings movies though between The Hobbit and those they really did the opposite of what they should have to tell the story. Each of the LOTR books should have probably been two parts (especially the last book) while there was absolutely no reason to stretch The Hobbit out into more than one movie, much less three. The fact that the scouring of the Shire was left out of the LOTR movies is inexcusable as it was an incredibly important part of the story (at least in my opinion). I though they did a good enough job with the Hobbit, it just would have been much better compacted into one movie and sticking with the material actually in The Hobbit.

I hadn't heard about the LOTR series but there's a lot of spectacular things on TV these days, particularly Amazon and Netflix originals. It certainly COULD be good.

I think a great adaptation of The Silmarillion (a series or multiple movies I imagine) could certainly be made and I'm surprised they haven't started such a project yet. I suppose it would take a bit more work to adapt than LotR and The Hobbit...