Didn't realise he had a new book out. His son finished the unfinished manuscript that took him 30 years to fine tune. http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/781/781161p1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Húrin
I remember something about his son working on finishing some of his old work, guess this is it. Seems like it went kinda unnoticed though.
Looks like it, I never heard about it until I accidentally found The Hobbit was becoming a movie. But I will get the book.
Well, I just hope it's along the line of The Hobbit and LotR, rather than the Silmarillion, which I find so dull I have yet to read more than a quarter of it.
Vig, that's because The Silmarillion isn't a story--it's a bible of Middle-Earth. It isn't interesting to anyone but the Tolkien Geek.
I have never read any of his work. I like the idea of the ring. It's a very simple, easily understood theme, which is what makes it so powerful. But three movies to bear out what you knew would happen in the end seemed a bit much. The moves were good. But I think it was a little too much fantasy for me. I may read the book someday to see how he executed his idea. It seems like a book that would be required reading in school, for the theme alone, which is why I wonfer why I was not forced to read it. That is what I'm keen to find out.
If you knew how much the movies left out, you wouldn't be surprised that they had to make 3 of them. And the "real" story isn't about the ring being destroyed, that is just the red thread so to speak. It's worth a read even if fantasy doesn't appeal much to you.
It is apparently set 6,000 years before The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. And it meant to be a very dark book.
