I prefer to own DVDs than pay for streaming, when possible.

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.

Zucchini. I’ll still eat it when someone else cooks, but I’ve given myself permission to stop using it when I cook. 9 times out of 10 it’s just really uninteresting to me, and there are plenty of other veggies to choose.

This.

And there are options that store the data locally on your phone rather than on a company server. This is the safest option.