Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!

It’s in the news [CNN.com]!

A new book by J.R.R.Tolkien to be publlished next year!

I can’t wait!

Of course - it’s not really “by JRRT”, some 40+ years after his death. It’s actually another of the edited by Christopher Tolkien scattered notes and unfinished works, comming to see the light of readers’ night lamps in one of the more probable of the many possible forms it could have had if the Proffessor himself had finished it.

The good news - that’s no problem - “The Silmarillion”, “The Unfinished tales” and “Book of lost tales” were all great even as they aren’t “original”.

The bad news - it’s “The lay of the children of Hurin” that is going to be published. Which I kinda “couldn’t care less about” or at least “don’t like that much”. Not that I mind Hurin himself - probably the greatest human hero in all Tolkien’s work, or maybe the greatest martyr - but I particulary dislike the ones that are the real focus of this story - the children of Hurin and especially the despicable Turin.

Anyway - the worst from Tolkien is better than the most of what could be scrapped off the book shelves on “Slaveikov” these days, so it’s good news after all. Looking forward to it!

Here’s an article about the book from a seamingly interesting site I found while browsing about a proper iamge:

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/childrenofhurin.htm

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