Any JRR Tolkien Fans - A new Tolkien Book

[ALittleNorthofKansas]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:34am

The Children of Hurin is to be released next month.

... Publisher HarperCollins is keeping exact details of the story under close wraps but its description as "an epic story of adventure, tragedy, fellowship and heroism" will be familiar to the legions of Tolkien fans. ....

[Pip]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:38am

I've loved Tolkien from the time my dad first read me Lord of the Rings when I was 5 years old. I struggled getting through the Silmarillion, though, so I hope this book is more like an adventure story than an encyclopedia...

[tazber]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:56am

I'm with Pip. If it's a "story", I can't wait for it.

[ALittleNorthofKansas]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:57am

I have read the Lord of the Rings a few times. The Silmarillion I remembrer I was so excited when I got it for Christmas but I too found it very encyclopedic.

Forgot link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070325/ennew_afp/entertainmentbritain

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:24am

In the last year I have read "The Hobbit" and LOTR 1 & 2. I still have 3 and Silmarillion on my book shelf. I'm excited to hear about a new one!

[junglered]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 1:42pm

I read about this in the newspaper this morning - very exciting news!

[pab]

Posted: 3/26/07 at 1:48pm

It all will depend on how good a writer the son is. Beacuse his hame is Tolkien and he is JRR's son does not mean that he can write like his father and finish this book satisfactorily.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 3/27/07 at 1:48pm

It really annoys me when the greedy

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 3/27/07 at 1:49pm

families of dead writers hire hacks to carry on "in the tradition" of their dear, departed meal tickets.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 3/27/07 at 7:14pm

No, J.R.R. Tolkien actually wrote this. His son just found trunks full of pages that his dad had wrote, and he pieced them together to form the novel.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 3/27/07 at 7:16pm

Here is the information that came from amazon.com:

The Children of Hurin, begun in 1918, was one of three 'Great Tales' J.R.R. Tolkien worked on throughout his life, though he never realized his ambition to see it published. Though familiar to many fans from extracts and references within other Tolkien books, it has long been assumed that the story would forever remain an unfinished tale. Now reconstructed by Christopher Tolkien, painstakingly editing together the complete work from his father's many drafts, this book is the culmination of a tireless thirty-year endeavor by him to bring J.R.R.Tolkien's vast body of unpublished work to a wide audience.

Having drawn the distinctive maps for the original The Lord of the Rings more than 50 years ago, Christopher has also created a detailed new map for this book. In addition, it will include a jacket and color paintings by Alan Lee, illustrator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Centenary Edition and Academy Award-winning designer of the film trilogy.