Tolkien-related
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:57 pmNew Tolkien Book Coming
An unfinished tale by Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers told the Associated Press.
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 Rings and other works, have been published before.
The new book will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in England.
An unfinished tale by Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers told the Associated Press.
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 Rings and other works, have been published before.
The new book will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in England.