New book by J.R.R. Tolkien!?

[saint]

Pretty prolific for a dead guy!

[crashwg]

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.

[lokki]

Tolkien died on 1973 The Silmarillion  was published in 1977, and unfinished tales was published in 1980.
Actually more of his stuff has been published after his death.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

[CCM]

Sounds like Christopher Tolkien trying to cash in on daddy's name...

[zaphod]

It is Chris' doing.  From the review in Entertainment Weekly, sounds like he basically took whatever pages he found and slapped them together, without any textual glue holding it together.  They said it was pretty bad.

[GoPodular.com]

The Silmarillion was finished by Chris.  The way I understand it, it was nowhere near a complete book when his father died and was pieced together with (incomplete) notes.  Chris himself has said it would have been a different book if he had taken the time to go through it properly.

[patrickl]

I was wondering about that book too. Saw it on the Amazon best seller list and was wondering how a dead guy could be writing books still. So it's his offspring.

[shardian]

Hey, if Tupac can still release records, then Tolkien can still release books.