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These two would be the obvious choices, being the stories where the characters even actually do get some characterizatization.
The big problem with the film adaptations would be laying out the setting of the First Age properly to audiences who would not be familiar with the story. It would need a lot of worldbuilding to get it right.
The Silmarillion is my favourite book and I would love to see it done right. There is hope, even if it is slim.
This is one of the few cases where I'd be happy with splitting the book into multiple films. A film for each of the 4 epics of the first age: the creation myth up through the War of Wrath, Beren and Lúthien, the Children of Húrin, and the Fall of Gondolin (with an epilogue showing the sinking of Beleriand and the founding of Númenor).
I just hope they get Galadriel right this time and show her as the timeless badass she really is, instead of the whiny child she comes off as in Rings of Power