New book by J.R.R.Tolkien

[Elatan]

Next year (07) we will see the book "Children of Hurin" released

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5358880.stm

If the link is removed heres the short text
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Son completes unfinished Tolkien

Tolkien is considered by many to be the first fantasy author
An unfinished book by JRR Tolkien has been edited into a completed work by his son for publication next year.
Christopher Tolkien has spent 30 years working on The Children of Hurin, which The Lord of the Rings author started in 1918 and later abandoned.

Extracts from The Children of Hurin have been published before.

JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy has sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into three hugely successful films.

"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 Hurin as an independent work, between its own covers," Christopher Tolkien said in a statement.

The story involves the elves and dwarves that feature in much of Tolkien's work.

He died in September 1973, aged 81.
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at last a new book as close to the source as possible. Perhaps this is the one book (13 in the line of HoME) I heard rumour of a year ago.

[ArPharazon]

I wonder if this book'll include the Wanderings of Hurin, a text released near the end of the History of Middle-Earth, which talks about Hurin's journey to the remaining of the House of Haleth, in the aftermath of Turin's story and the slaying of the dragon. I always thought it a fitting conclusion to the Narn, but I know of no other volume in which it was published.

If Christopher intends to fill a book with the story of the Children of Hurin, I wouldn't be surprised if he took the opportunity to include this one as well.

[Elatan]

Hopefully we will get more than whats already out. I really hope for some stuff never released before. Anyway its a Must Have to me ;D

[Eonwë]

Aye, it does sound interesting, and when I'd thought I'd had the entire HoME too, hehe.

Btw, Bradox had also mentioned this in the Tolkien Discussion Board, so if your link is removed for some reason Elatan, he has a different news link and it'll probably still be there.

[Elatan]

Oh, I see.
;D I will get the book link or not, only hope they will make copies enough available for the first wave