new Tolkien
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It is a new Tolkien book! Begun shortly after he returned home from the trenches of World War One and tinkered with for decades afterward, The Children of Hurin, like The Silmarillion, was never completed in his lifetime. But Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher, has painstakingly culled, edited, and reconstructed all the scattered variants of the story, much as he did decades ago with The Silmarillion. The laborious task took thirty years. But now, the much-anticipated book will be in stores by the middle of this next month. (info lifted from www.kingsmeadow.com)
I'm all over this....
1 comment:
*Drool*. I never read the Silmarillion. How much did Christopher have to do to finish it? Did he write any chapters himself or did he mostly just compile it?
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