Mar 26
The first new Tolkien novel for 30 years is to be published next month. In a move eagerly anticipated by millions of fans across the world, The Children of Húrin will be released worldwide on 17 April, 89 years after the author started the work and four years after the final cinematic instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, one of biggest box office successes in history.
Nice… The LOTR book was still better then the film though, not saying the film was crap mind u as it was a masterpiece, does anyone else agree?
I liked the movie way better than the books. The books were slow and stuffed with information I didn’t need. The movies had speed and e.g. the landscape was described by pictures rather then 10 pages full of… stuff.
More stories about the men in the First Age is awesome. In The Silmarillion, Hurin and his fathers, sons, descendants and wifes were full of tragic stories that IMO, require more story telling!
I am a lover of all things Tolkien-lore, and I cannot wait to read more.
Also, for those of you who don’t know, Christopher Tolkien has studied and written about his father’s work for many years including 12 volumes of The History of Middle Earth, and editing and publishing JRR’s work after he died.
Can’t wait!
The movie’s were extremely well done, but I can’t help but still be a little bit pissed at the the things that were left out. They killed off Saruman at the wrong time, and they didn’t mention anything about the chance that Sam would get to go to the Grey Havens, being as how he too was a ringbearer albeit only for a short time.
Gah! No! Christopher Tolkein needs to stop urinating on his father’s work! JRR was a literary giant–his son is a talentless hack. The man’s been living off of his father’s notes his entire life, and nothing he’s written is worth the paper it’s printed on. He needs to stop.
“Nice… The LOTR book was still better then the film though, not saying the film was crap mind u as it was a masterpiece, does anyone else agree?”
The books weren’t masterpieces either. Mediocre writing but with good setting.
Taellosse Says:
March 26th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Gah! No! Christopher Tolkein needs to stop urinating on his father’s work! JRR was a literary giant–his son is a talentless hack. The man’s been living off of his father’s notes his entire life, and nothing he’s written is worth the paper it’s printed on. He needs to stop.
HERE HERE!!
Taellosse – couldn’t agree more.
bah!
uhhh can’t wait. preordered it this very moment
HOLY CRAPOLA!!
*head a splodes!!*
Me likee!!!
This is going to be like when Brian continued the Dune series and it sucked donkey balls hard.
Taellosse Says:
March 26th, 2007 at 11:39 am
“Gah! No! Christopher Tolkein needs to stop urinating on his father’s work! JRR was a literary giant–his son is a talentless hack. The man’s been living off of his father’s notes his entire life, and nothing he’s written is worth the paper it’s printed on. He needs to stop.”
Not at all, the Silmarillion infinitely better written than LOTR (although it’s still poorly paced), something that is largey the case thanks to Christopher Tolkien’s editing of it. As much as I love the LOTR trilogy, it’s the worst written book that has as many fans as it does, if we can have some more work set in the Tolkien-verse but better written, then I’m all for it.
It’s the characters, creatures and story that have always interested me, the more the merrier.