#22
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
J.R.R. Tolkien has a new book coming out in 2007. You heard me. John Ronald Reuel may've died in 1973, but his son--Christopher--has been releasing unfinished/near-finished works since. "The Silmarillion" and the various lost tales books are good examples of what Chris has been up to.
So J.R.R. (by way of Christopher) is releasing "Children of Hurin." There's a little accent symbol in there, which I opted out of placing. It's another story set in Middle Earth, just like the Lord of the Rings books and "the Hobbit" (and most of his other writings). It seems like it's a pared-down of "the Silmarillion," or at least one of the sections of it.
I appreciate Tolkien, but remain a distant admirer; his stylistic flourishes sometimes leave me drained of energy. Still, this fairly big news--some are ecstatic (front-page news in the UK, for more than a week), others are ready to form a mob and burn down printing houses. And you can get a glimpse of this courtesy of my friends at the A&F forums.
posted, with grace and poise, by Jason @ 9/27/2006 10:10:00 PM,
3 Comments:
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At 12:10 PM,
Buddy Chamberlain said...
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I, unlike Miss Erica, am perfectly happy creating and living in fictional worlds... I just can't write about them very well.
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At 1:51 PM,
RVWarren said...
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Great...another reason for people to dress up with pointy ears and cloaks. Makes me think that JRR and Gene Roddenberry were actually the same person--pointy ears, cloaks (for whole ships in Star Trek!), Nazgul/William Shatner, Hobbits/William Shatner, etc.
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At 8:03 PM,
Buddy Chamberlain said...
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Shatner does have an odd Nazgul-Hobbit aura to him, doesn't he?
