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Amrunelen
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Posted: Tue 19 Sep , 2006 11:18 am
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NEW YORK - An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday.

Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on "The Children of Hurin," an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of "The Children of Hurin," which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and other works, have been published before.

"It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father's long version of the legend of the `Children of Hurin' as an independent work, between its own covers," Christopher Tolkien said in a statement.

The new book will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in England.

J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" has sold more than 50 million copies and was also adapted into a blockbuster, Academy Award-winning trio of films. A stage version is scheduled to open next year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_ ... _tolkien_1



Yet another book I'm going to have to hoard, I suppose.

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Also on BBC....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5358880.stm


Must be legit, will be good if its done well, or maybe he uis just looking at more film revenue?


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Hm.

How much will be new material?

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That's what I want to know too...

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I just hope it stays truly JRR Tolkienesque. And whatever he's done is good work. And he's not just being a money hungry bastard.

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