“New” Tolkien Book
The first new Tolkien novel for 30 years is to be published next month. In a move eagerly anticipated by millions of fans across the world, The Children of Húrin will be released worldwide on 17 April, 89 years after the author started the work and four years after the final cinematic instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, one of biggest box office successes in history.
The book, whose contents are being jealously guarded by publisher HarperCollins - is described as “an epic story of adventure, tragedy, fellowship and heroism.”
It is likely to be a publishing sensation, particularly as it is illustrated by veteran Middle Earth artist Alan Lee, who won an Oscar for art direction on Peter Jackson’s third film The Return of The King. Lee provided 25 pencil sketches and eight paintings for the first edition of the book, one of which is reproduced here for the first time in a national newspaper.
Well, Christopher Tolkien isn’t much of a writer. But his father’s notes were insanely extensive and I have read many of them and there are a lot of great stories there. So we will see how good it is. It’s about a tribe of humans in the first age and the trials they had to go through. Basically, it’s about some of the first humans in Middle Earth, many hundreds of years before the events in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
First Age you say? That’s at least 6,000 years (IIRC) prior to LOTR!
Posted by Macker on 03/26 at 05:37 PM
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