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Reply #570 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 10:33am

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New Tolkien book to be published next month: report

Sun Mar 25, 5:44 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - An unfinished book by "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien, which was completed by his son, will go on sale on next month, a newspaper said.
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"The Children of Hurin", which Tolkien began in 1918, will be in bookshops on April 17, the Independent on Sunday added. The author's son, Christopher, spent 30 years completing the story from the many drafts produced by his father.

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.

Artist Alan Lee has provided 25 pencil sketches and eight paintings for the book.

Lee won an Oscar for art direction on
Peter Jackson's "The Return of the King", the third blockbuster film based on the "Lord of Rings" trilogy that brought the stories to a worldwide audience.

"The Children of Hurin" is the first "new" Tolkien book since a collection of his works -- "The Silmarillion" -- was published posthumously in 1977, four years after the writer's death. It was also edited by Christopher Tolkien.

The chairman of the Tolkien Society, Chris Crawshaw, was quoted by the Independent on Sunday as saying: "It ('The Children of Hurin') would probably make a very good movie, if anyone can secure the film rights."

Man the Geek stampede will be worse than the Harry Potter trampling of '04 Sheboygan Rollin's Bookstore Massacre!

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Reply #571 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 11:22am

Children of Hurin is going to suck for a couple of reasons. First, Tolkien wasn't a very good author in 1918. He was mostly writing young children's books (ages 4-6) and didn't really develop his epic fantasy prowess for many more years. Tolkien didn't start working on The Hobbit for another decade (finally getting it published in '37). Second, Christopher Tolkien's writing sucks. Reading his fiction is like eating Shredded Wheat without milk. Try reading The Silmarillion immediately after The Lord of the Rings, and you'll get an idea of how bad things can get when Christopher Tolkien tries to finish his father's incomplete works.

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Reply #574 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 12:20pm

Well the Silmarillion was just taken from Tolkien's notes that he used as a backstory for the series. I think Chris was trying to keep as much of his fathers writing alive that he could, and not reinvent anything. It reads like a history book because that is all Tolkien had the time to do, it was going to be published later when he did turn the history into stories. But alas, he passed on before then, so all we have are his notes.

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Reply #575 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 12:55pm

The book as it stands today is really a compilation that consists of the original "Silmarillion" and a handful of other texts thrown together. JRR started working on it in the early '20s and originally submitted it to his publisher as a follow-up to The Hobbit. It was rejected, and JRR was asked to write a chronological continuation to The Hobbit instead. Hence, Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien worked on it fairly regularly up to his death, including a heavy spurt between his completion of the Lord of the Rings and it's publication and again in the late '50s.

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #576 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 1:19pm Ya seems right, he created the world and languages first, before the stories we know. kudos to that publisher for asking for a continuation of the story!
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Reply #578 - Mar 29^th, 2007 at 5:43pm

I'm going to say it's a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens every so often because of high polarity atmosphere but we don't pay too much attention because we assume that space holds nothing for us here on earth and is only a waste of money. Ya that's what the monkeys said about the monolith in 2001: A Space Oddissy...that that's why they evolved into black people...that's how it went right?

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #579 - Mar 30^th, 2007 at 12:00pm Stick@school wrote on Mar 29^th, 2007 at 4:59pm: Lets all speculate at what this could be.... It holds nothing for us. It's a waste of money. -b0b (...snickers.)
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Reply #582 - Mar 31^st, 2007 at 2:34am

Exactly...if we're so concerned about polluting our world why not establish bases, on say, the moon or Mars and pollute the nonexistent atmosphere of those worlds. That way we develop a slew of whole new tech for everything considering we'd have to invent new ships to transport good from planet to planet. Then more people would go into space as well. Although let's try and make it not become like Total Recall...or Babylon 5 for that matter!

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #583 - Mar 31^st, 2007 at 8:02am Do you have any idea how much it would cost to transport basic goods from space to earth? Even from the moon! I think I'll stick with my subpar Korean/Taiwanese/Chinese crap from Walmart, thank you very much. -b0b (...doesn't plan to be around long enough to care.)
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