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Selik
Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: Children of Hurin |
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Anyone else interested in getting this? For those who don't know it's works written by Tolkien that was left unfinished due to his death, which has been put together by his son, Christopher and is due to be published in 26 days.
Brief synopsis from Waterstones:
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.
Thought people may be interested. _________________ "I sit on my arse, not my head." - Baron Gresse. |
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Drizzt
Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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*marks a big 'x' on the calendar* _________________ Pagan Music |
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dragonkillernz
Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 365 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds interesting
*Is understating* _________________ Ian Fulguirinas(dragonkillernz) |
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Selik
Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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lol, don't worry. Doesn't look like there's many people that interested anyway. _________________ "I sit on my arse, not my head." - Baron Gresse. |
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Lizzy
Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 674 Location: the wilds of the West
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'm interested...*waves* _________________
Listen to Lizzy, she's always right! as said by Jovial |
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Selik
Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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lol, I wondered if that would get a response. It did. All 1 of them _________________ "I sit on my arse, not my head." - Baron Gresse. |
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Mantyluoto
Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 573 Location: Somerset, UK
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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i'm totally not interested in this.
Tolkien may be a genius but his work is soooooooooooooooooo boring.
loved the films though!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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TheJovialGnome
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 295 Location: Boston
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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'nother one over 'ere I'm interested! _________________ "Constant Vigilance!" |
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sir robin
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 160 Location: United Kingdom. Corby northants
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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have to agree with Manty on this when not in book form, tolkien is good. I remember hearing the hobbit on the radio when i was younger and it was soooooooooo good, just found LoTR's such a struggle to read _________________ I phoned a psyhic hotline and they told me they see a large phonebill in my future |
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Parmenion
Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: |
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I should get my advance coy of this very very soon, will let you know what i think when it gets here |
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jolinare
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 26
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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the cover artwork is absolutely beautiful. i'd buy it just for that, but i don't see myself reading it any time soon. i need to read FOTR again to see if i still find tolkien's style tedious. I am not worthy of his literature! lol |
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TheJovialGnome
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 295 Location: Boston
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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jolinare wrote: | the cover artwork is absolutely beautiful. i'd buy it just for that, but i don't see myself reading it any time soon. i need to read FOTR again to see if i still find tolkien's style tedious. I am not worthy of his literature! lol |
....and there are some very nice colour plates inside as well! I'm afraid if you don't like his style you won't like this one either and by the time you've got through Christopher Tolkien explaining how he came to pull the story together you find that there isn't that much of a story anyway! _________________ "Constant Vigilance!" |
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