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Posted on 09/19/2006 4:08:32 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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.
I thought Tolkien's unfinished work was "The Bobbitt."
Work had started on that one as well, but was unfortunately truncated...
Or was the funding cut off?
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Interesting :~)
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Very intresting.
Timing is everything. That, and the hard-to-ignore bit about a billion plus worldwide made by PJ's movie.
Bumpitttt.
The billion plus the movie made also increased sales to the books, it was a windfall for Christopher, though I think he remains against it and hasn't seen it.
I'm sure Hollywood would like to make a movie out of THAT one -- it's got incest and suicide!
So this one will have more info about the dwarves?
As it should be.
He really oughta get over that and go see the movies! They were very well done, and probably closer to the book than anyone else would have bothered to do.
The Silmarillion ought to be filmed, or made into a series..."Tales from the Silmarillion."
It is interesting, I am not sure how much to expect out of it though.
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8/30/06 | MplsSteve
Posted on 08/30/2006 8:08:01 PM EDT by MplsSteve
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