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September 20, 2006
And now for some important news
Christopher Tolkien has completed an unfinished story of his father's, left in several drafts, due for publication in the coming 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...."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.
In other important news, according to J K Rowling herself, apparently the fact that James Potter's invisibility cloak ended up with Dumbledore, after James' death will become a fact of significance in the final tome of the Harry Potter series.
Any theories on why?
Alcibiades | 09/20/06 at 03:36 PM | Categories: Life and how to live it
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JRR Tolkien seems to have become one of the most prolific deceased authors in recent memory.
Growing up, I adored "The Hobbit" And LOTR (not to mention "Farmer Giles Of Ham" and "Smith Of Wooton Major") and was delighted to re-read them all when the Peter Jackson movies started coming out.
I never got a copy of "The Silmarillion" (which some people had told me was a bit tedious) and for the last several years, I've had that boxed set of "The Histories Of Middle Earth Vols. 1-5" sitting on my bookshelf, daunting and unread. Now comes "The Children Of Hurin" to be tossed on top of the pile. Yipes.
And why did Dumbledore end up with Harry's dad's invisibility cloak? Who knows! But I'm taking it as a sign that Dumbledore didn't really die in "Half Blood Prince." (I knew it! And don't try to convince me otherwise . . .)
Drew W | September 20, 2006 04:17 PM
Uh huh. Not only did Dumbledore not die, but the 12th Imam didn't really die either! He's just hidden in a cave somewhere in Avalon to return to the world when we, er, I mean they, really need him.
But who cares about all that, back to the important stuff.
- I read The Silmarillion in my teens. It started out pretty boring to my mind at that point, creation myths only interested me far later in my academic career, but it got more interesting after the initial read - there were plenty of rackground myths eluded at in TLOTRs that hadn't been told in full there.
I never have bought the 5 volume history of Middle Earth though.
Alcibiades | September 20, 2006 07:39 PM
Re the Potter Cloak of Invisibility, I suggest we leave it to the true anoraks to battle it out. (My money is on the cloak's having some property of which we are so far unaware.)
Rob | September 20, 2006 09:42 PM
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