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Tolkien's THE CHILDREN OF HURIN to be published

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Source: AP

According to the Associated Press, J.R.R. Tolkien's unfinished tale THE CHILDREN OF HURIN is set to be published next spring.

The book, which has been published previously only in excerpts, has been edited by Tolkien's son into a completed story. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on the book, an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. The tale includes the elves and dwarves made famous in other Tolkien works.

"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.

The new book will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in England. The real question now becomes, will MGM and/or New Line go after the big screen rights to the film?

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Comments/Responses
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• Sep 19, 2006, 02:42am •
Nice to see a man's son set about to finish his father's work. It makes for an excellent tribute. I look forward to see how this pans out.

• Sep 19, 2006, 03:46am •
I want to check the book out and see if there is much of a difference between how J.R.R. wrote and how his son writes. The elder Tolkein had some seriously too long descriptions of for example "trees" in his other works. Chris Tolkien probably continued that so it will probably be a long book.

jamesdalton • Sep 19, 2006, 04:26am •
J.K. Rowling should have wrote it. Or better yet, R.L. Stine. J.R.R. Tolkein's a complete hack.

jamesdalton • Sep 19, 2006, 04:34am •
What are you talking about Dalton?!?! R.L. Stine is a hack!

jamesdalton • Sep 19, 2006, 04:35am •
Yeah, whatever Dalton. Stine is the man!!! Why don't you go back to your second-rate Christopher Pike?

madmanic999 • Sep 19, 2006, 07:04am •
Even if you are kidding... a hack!? You don't have to love Tolkein's wriring style, but face facts, the guy was one of the greatest writers of our time.

snallygaster • Sep 19, 2006, 07:30am •
Please don't feed the troll.

• Sep 19, 2006, 08:01am •
I don't read books. When's the movie comin' out?

• Sep 19, 2006, 08:28am •

Great news. New Line might pick up the movie rights without reading it, but I don't think they'll actually make a movie out of this story. From what I've read of it in the Silmarillion, it's a very depressing story.

• Sep 19, 2006, 08:38am •
I have to admit that I really don't like reading Tolkein for entertainment purposes (for the above mentioned reason of his tendancy towards overlong description) but he was in no way what-so-ever a hack. Fantastic writing in terms of style, I just find myself screaming "get to the f**king point".

I also find that with the movies. Great movies in style and execution, but I have to go with the small camp that finds the movies too long. So, Kudos (once more) to Jackson for capturing perfectly the books - even the aspects I don't like.

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