Monday, March 26, 2007

30 Years In The Making


Good ol' J.R.R.
Never to be confused with the
Dallas J.R.
Or the pathetic Barbecue Sauce J.R.
(he who talks of "physicality" all the time...)
And never to be confused
-his books, his writing and his name-
with J.K.R. - !






New Tolkien book to be published next month: report
Sun Mar 25, 5:44 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - An unfinished book by "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien, which was completed by his son, will go on sale on next month, a newspaper said.

"The Children of Hurin", which Tolkien began in 1918, will be in bookshops on April 17, the Independent on Sunday added. The author's son, Christopher, spent 30 years completing the story from the many drafts produced by his father.

Publisher HarperCollins is keeping exact details of the story under close wraps but its description as "an epic story of adventure, tragedy, fellowship and heroism" will be familiar to the legions of Tolkien fans.

Artist Alan Lee has provided 25 pencil sketches and eight paintings for the book.

Lee won an Oscar for art direction on
Peter Jackson's "The Return of the King", the third blockbuster film based on the "Lord of Rings" trilogy that brought the stories to a worldwide audience.

"The Children of Hurin" is the first "new" Tolkien book since a collection of his works -- "The Silmarillion" -- was published posthumously in 1977, four years after the writer's death. It was also edited by Christopher Tolkien.

The chairman of the Tolkien Society, Chris Crawshaw, was quoted by the Independent on Sunday as saying: "It ('The Children of Hurin') would probably make a very good movie, if anyone can secure the film rights."


Hmm... It takes thirty years to weed through it all and make sense of it, for publication? I suddenly feel better about my slow working pace, on my book about archetypes especially - done on a parallel with all the other projects that I have, which results in a turtle-in-a-race pace for all of them...
I'll still beat that harum-scarum hare to the Finish Line in the end, right?

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