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[Pixel]

Link!

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.

Sounds cool to me!

[zimoo]

Yahoo could atleast check the title of the book. Húrin has an accent on the "u".

Anyway, really really looking forward to this. The Narn i Hîn Húrin always fascinated me. Hopefully we'll get more information on the Dagor Dagorath aswell

[Joe]

Can his son continue the magic?

[N19HtmAr3]

That's to be shown...

[Mathijs]

Yes, he can. He proves his skill enough in Unfinished Tales, at least to me.

Looking forward to this alot..

Edited by Matias, 19 September 2006 - 08:01 PM.

[Núkumnëhtar]

So wait is this just the finished version of the one in Unfinished Tales?

[Kwen]

this looks greatm will have to read

[Celeglin]

*wibbles with excitement*

[Mathijs]

So wait is this just the finished version of the one in Unfinished Tales?

I believe so, yes.. or well I hope so, since I really liked the unfinished version.

[Juissi]

Yes Unfinished Tales was great book and this is propably gonna be something like that which means it will be good. But we will see.

[JEV3]

This is arguably my favorite story by Tolkien. (Either this or Beren and Luthien) It is a story of a man who was cursed by Morgoth as a punishment to his father.

Now I have heard rumors that there is a book about this being worked on, and I would like to know more information about it. Who is writing it? Is it a compilation of Tolkien's works on Turin, or is it being (finished) by someone else? Is it to be comparable in size to one of the LOTR books? What is it's projected release date? Will it have additional material not quite touched upon by Tolkien?

Thanks for the help,
JEV3

[Juissi]

Well I heard that its just bigger version from what is in Unfinished Tales and its being worked by son of Tolkien. So I guess that it uses already published material and then some old-new writings of Tolkien.

And I found this

Press Release
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006
J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2007

Houghton Mifflin has acquired US rights to publish the first complete
book by J.R.R. Tolkien since the posthumous Silmarillion in 1977 .
HarperCollins UK acquired the project from The Tolkien Estate in a
world rights deal. Presented for the first time as a fully
continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of
Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, and the rich landscape and
characters unique to Tolkien.

The Children of Húrin , begun in 1918, was one of three "Great Tales"
J.R.R. Tolkien worked on throughout his life, though he never
realized his ambition to see it published. Though familiar to many
fans from extracts and references within other Tolkien books, it has
long been assumed that the story would forever remain an "unfinished
tale". Now reconstructed by Christopher Tolkien, painstakingly
editing together the complete work from his father's many drafts,
this book is the culmination of a tireless thirty-year endeavor by
him to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's vast body of unpublished work to a wide
audience.

Christopher Tolkien said: "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 Húrin as an independent work, between its
own covers, with a minimum of editorial presence, and above all in
continuous narrative without gaps or interruptions, if this could be
done without distortion or invention, despite the unfinished state in
which he left some parts of it."

Having drawn the distinctive maps for the original The Lord of the
Rings more than 50 years ago, Christopher has also created a detailed
new map for this book. In addition, it will include a jacket and
color paintings by Alan Lee , illustrator of The Hobbit and The Lord
of the Rings Centenary Edition and Oscar ® -winning designer of the
film trilogy.

[Celeglin]

I know nothing about a new publication, but I do know that this is actually one of my least favourite stories of Tolkien. Most likely because it was one of the more men-centric stories during the Ages of Elves.

As a total sidenote, one of my favourite stories is the hidden-gem regarding Finrod and Andreth, in Morgoth's Ring. I don't really know why, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and it's appendices.

Anyway, sorry for the brief turn offtopic.

[Fingulfin]

I agree with Celeglin... As you might have guessed, I liked Elven history the most, so you can guess why I hated Hurin/Turin's story... It was rather depressing anyway :(

[zimoo]

*Points to quote in sig*

I personally always enjoyed the Tale of Turin. Although I am an elf lover first and foremost (Gondolindrim FTW!), I rank Turin/Hurin/Beren amongst the great elf lords.

I'd like to see a bit about Tuor thrown in there too, as he's probably my 5th favourite of the Edain in the first age.

[Bart]

The part I'm most interested in is the third age. It has all the good stuff like Rohan, War of the Ring, Istari, Hobbits, etc.

However, chances are big I'm going to buy this book. I'm currently reading Unfinished Tales.

[JEV3]

*Points to quote in sig*

I personally always enjoyed the Tale of Turin. Although I am an elf lover first and foremost (Gondolindrim FTW!), I rank Turin/Hurin/Beren amongst the great elf lords.

I'd like to see a bit about Tuor thrown in there too, as he's probably my 5th favourite of the Edain in the first age.

It is about the children of Hurin... what would Tuor be doing in there?

Does anyone have more info to go off of than Makaveli's? (thank you Makaveli for the info BTW)

Also, personally, I choose whether I like characters by who they are, not their race... I also have differant reasons for liking certain characters... Aragorn-Admiration Samwise-Sympathy Turin-(go ahead and guess) Pity Glorphindel-valor, and reasons for not liking certain characters... Frodo-Helplessness Nienor-Helplessness Gimli-Stubbornity Feanor-Pride...

[zimoo]

You don't like Nienor Niniel?

On his way to Gondolin Tuor encountered Turin. Considering that there is only 3 children of Hurin (and out of them only one had many adventures), a whole book just on them would be hard IMO.

Aside from a few press releases (which are pretty much identical to what Juissi posted) there's next-to-no information, so we can only speculate. I do believe it'd be hard to fill a book with Tuirn's tales, hence why I hoped I'd read more of Tuor.

[JEV3]

You don't like Nienor Niniel?

On his way to Gondolin Tuor encountered Turin. Considering that there is only 3 children of Hurin (and out of them only one had many adventures), a whole book just on them would be hard IMO.

Aside from a few press releases (which are pretty much identical to what Juissi posted) there's next-to-no information, so we can only speculate. I do believe it'd be hard to fill a book with Tuirn's tales, hence why I hoped I'd read more of Tuor.

Of course not, she is not a major heroine, and she was so helpless it was almost irritating. (not as irritating as Frodo though...) I much prefer Luthien as a heroine...

Who was his third child?

I see...

[Juissi]

I dont know if I remember it right but it was girl that died in very young age because of sickness but I may be confusing the names
Lalaith was her name, it means laugh and she died when she was three years old. Because of wind that Came from Angband and caused her sickness

Edited by Makaveli, 23 February 2007 - 06:12 PM.