Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 According to The Associated Press, Christopher Tolkien has finished editing his father's unfinished work, The Children of Hurin.Excerpts of the story have been published before, but this will be the first time it's published - as Chris Tolkien puts it - "as an independent work, between its own covers."The book is set to be published in the spring of 2007.Full story here.Tolkien fans around the world rejoice!- Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I know the story well, from the excepts in The Sil and Unfinished Tales.It's Tolkien's most tragic works.LOTR and The Sil had fairly happy (if melancholic endings), but this....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hooray! I am waiting this with great enthusiasm. I wonder how long will the story be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 It's Tolkien, so it will be rather long I expect.Even the less then detailed summary of the story in The Silmarillion was one of the largest chapters in that book I think.Manuel should get this, it has a dragon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridan 0 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAfonso 186 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hooray!PS: Now that it will be published as an independent story, there's no reason it shouldn't be made into an epic film (Well, no reason apart from Christopher Tolkien...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 8O etc etcJohn- thrilled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,630 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Did Tolkien actually write this,or his son filled in most of the blanks?K.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Tolkien wrote it. The Children of Hurin is one of many First Age stories Tolkien spent his life working on, with many changes over the years. Christopher Tolkien just puts them together as best he can to make a cohesive, consitent story.John- getting more exicited as the enormity of this starts to sink in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 I guess Christopher might have had to fill in some blanks though. Or he just found tons of notes and put them all together, but then he probably either altered some bits or the full story is very much a patchwork... like UT and the HoME series, but this announcement makes it sound like a more cohesive novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Anyone else think that the tale of Túrin Turambar and Nienor Níniel is Tolkien doing a perverse homage of Romeo & Juliet?Certainly the outcome is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Tolkien was actually heavily influenced in the tale of Túrin Turambar by the Finnish Kalevala myth of Kullervo. The plot is very similar Kullervo first marrying his sister without knowing her (as they were separated as children), his sister finding out that they are siblings and killing herself and Kullervo taking his own life by falling on his own sword. Kullervo even speaks to his sword in the poem and the sword answers to him much in the same way as Turambar speaks to his sword. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 It's Kullervo meets Die Walküre, Romeo, Juliet & a dragon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Very well put Marian 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 It's Kullervo meets Die Walküre, Romeo, Juliet & a dragon.Which one has the incest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Kullervo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 And Die Walküre, but apparently Wagner took that from Kullervo as well (I didn't know it was in there).Anyway, Tolkien's claim that "both Rings are round, and that's all they have in common" is wrong on many levels. 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Any new Alan Lee illustrations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 No doubt this will be a Peter Jackson vehicle in years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,794 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Manuel should get this, it has a dragon. YAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST-321 4 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Is there a release date on this yet?Edit: Answering my own question: April 17, 2007I am flying to La Palma that day. I hope I can stop at the bookstore first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,794 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Is there a release date on this yet?Edit: Answering my own question: April 17, 2007I am flying to La Palma that day. I hope I can stop at the bookstore first.Canary Island?Have a nice time! Er.. dont you mean Isla Nublar?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST-321 4 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Canary Island?Have a nice time! Thanks. I am going for work, but I hope to have some fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 People don't work on the Canary Islands, they just engage in hedonistic debouchery!Better bring you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,794 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 People don't work on the Canary Islands, they just engage in hedonistic debouchery!Only tourists do.On some foreign travel agencies they were shown as a 'sex paradise'...With the ammount of great avian endemisms they have there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo 0 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Full story here. The page you've requested does not exist at this address. Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination, try visiting the AP home page or look through a list of AP's online services.The Link you provided doesn't work. It come up 404 Error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 sounds like a child desperate for money finding the culls and selling them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 16, 2007 Author Share Posted February 16, 2007 Full story here.The Link you provided doesn't work. It come up 404 Error.Well, I can't really help that now. It is a 5-month-old post, you know.Try Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Looks rather like the "Sons of Frank Herbert" syndrome to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST-321 4 Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Looks rather like the "Sons of Frank Herbert" syndrome to me.Nope. You obviously never read The Silmarillion.Just over 2 weeks until the release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I've preordered the Deluxe Edition from Amazon, which has new maps and new illustrations by Alan Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Well, poo. My copy was supposed to ship April 17, now it's been delayed until May 20. If it comes any later I might not be able to finish it before the new Potter book comes out. Anyone else having similar delays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Learn to speed read..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Where'd Tolkien find the time to plan and write all this droning blather that takes years to read? He must have been the crème de le crème nerd of his time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 He just had alot of time on his hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Well, it looks like the delay is either just for the Deluxe Edition or some Amazon snafu. I went to Hastings and found the regular edition for only $18 (almost $30 cheaper than what I was paying for the Deluxe Edition), so I went ahead and got it and cancelled my Amazon order. It still has the map and Alan Lee drawings, and I must say flipping through it that Mr. Lee has nailed it again. There is a wonderful illustration of Gondolin on the back cover. It's also shorter than I expected, only 259 pages not counting the usual appendicies, and that's with illustrations and a rather large font.Oh, and I finally went ahead and pre-ordered that new Harry Potter thingy while I was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Looks rather like the "Sons of Frank Herbert" syndrome to me.God, how I hate those prequel and sequel books. And Brian Herbert just can't stop writing them. They truly are a huge smoking pile of shit, even more so when compared to wonderful books written by the Frank Herbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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