Tuesday, April 3, 2007
George Grant blogs about a new Tolkien book set to come out later this month:
Yes, indeed. It is a new Tolkien book! Begun shortly after he returned home from the trenches of World War One and tinkered with for decades afterward, The Children of Hurin, like The Silmarillion, was never completed in his lifetime. But Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher, has painstakingly culled, edited, and reconstructed all the scattered variants of the story, much as he did decades ago with The Silmarillion. The laborious task took thirty years. But now, the much-anticipated book will be in stores by the middle of this next month.
Anybody know anything about this?
Yes, I've heard of it.
Actually, The Silmarillion tells the story of the children of Hurin, or part of it at least, in summary form. My assumption is that this will be a large expansion on that.