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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070325/ennew_afp/entertainmentbritain_070325214456
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070325/ennew_afp/entertainmentbritain_070325214456
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"New" "Tolkien" Book to be Published
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dragonfire
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Do you mean LOTR Tolkien or someone else. Like Bob Tolkien or Jim Tolkien.
Annerios
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I'm looking forward to it.
After wading through Christopher's intricate and exhaustive historical volumes on his father's work, this has to be more entertaining.
I love The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, but those books are not for the meek. It sounds like this will be more accessible to fans of LOTR.
After wading through Christopher's intricate and exhaustive historical volumes on his father's work, this has to be more entertaining.
I love The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, but those books are not for the meek. It sounds like this will be more accessible to fans of LOTR.
Maybe it sucks. That's my opinion of Silmarillion - it reads like a college history text, and is about as interesting. I love Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but the Middle Earth obsession shines through just a little too much in Silmarillion.
DingoDarkly
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ninthdoc said:
Same here - i have read the LOTR books and have attempted to read the Silmarillion but never get very far because my interest in reading has plumitted!
I love the Silmarillion. I find it fascinating. It's similar to the Bible in how it takes many different stories and narratives and makes them one. It pays homage to many of the classical tales such as Beowulf. It does read much like a college history textbook, but being a big nerd I guess, that has some appeal.
That sounds familiar. I can't quite put my finger on what book I read that was an "epic adventure of fellowship and heroism". Anyone?
Annerios
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The tale in this book is not something that will be unfamiliar to those that read The Silmarillion.
It involves the High men of the First age of Middle-earth long before the events told in LOTR. A time when Melkor (a Satan equivalent whom Sauron served) unleashed his hordes of orcs, dragons and Balrogs upon a Middle-earth that looked different from the lands you saw in the films.
The men and elves in these stories make Aragorn and Legolas look like peasants. They are very powerful. There are elves in The Silmarillion that go toe to toe with Balrogs and battles that make the Pelennor Fields look like a small skirmish.
Turin Turambar, the man that a lot of this book will be devoted to, is an interesting character and a precursor to characters like Moorcock's Elric. This is a dark tale and nothing like The Hobbit.
It involves the High men of the First age of Middle-earth long before the events told in LOTR. A time when Melkor (a Satan equivalent whom Sauron served) unleashed his hordes of orcs, dragons and Balrogs upon a Middle-earth that looked different from the lands you saw in the films.
The men and elves in these stories make Aragorn and Legolas look like peasants. They are very powerful. There are elves in The Silmarillion that go toe to toe with Balrogs and battles that make the Pelennor Fields look like a small skirmish.
Turin Turambar, the man that a lot of this book will be devoted to, is an interesting character and a precursor to characters like Moorcock's Elric. This is a dark tale and nothing like The Hobbit.
ninthdoc said:
Christopher Tolkien is the editor. JRRT wrote several versions of this story (as can be seen in History of Middle-earth) over many decades; CJRT has edited them into a single narrative. As I understand it, pretty much the entire work is JRRT's words, with minor changes for the sake of consistency. Given the limited scope of the story (relative to the Silmarillion), and the more personal level of the narrative than the 'short' version published in the Silmarillion, I think this will be a much more accessible volume for the general reader.
I just picked this up last night. It's taken this long because apparently they didn't print nearly enough to meet the demand and they are already on the 3rd printing. I guess for some reason they thought that a new posthumous book by J.R.R. Tolkein wouldn't make the bestseller list or something. 
I'm still reading the introduction so I don't have any opinion on the book. The introduction so far adds some really nice context to the book in light of the fact that I haven't read the silmarillion in over a decade. Did anyone else pick this one up and read it yet?
I'm still reading the introduction so I don't have any opinion on the book. The introduction so far adds some really nice context to the book in light of the fact that I haven't read the silmarillion in over a decade. Did anyone else pick this one up and read it yet?