New Tolkien Book: The Fall of Númenor

[darjr]

The Fall of Númenor

A collected novel of Tolkiens second age stories edited together as a coherent book.

New Tolkien book: <em>The Fall of Númenor</em> to be published

HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien's writings of the…

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I do so hope that Free League does an expansion covering the second age.

 

[Guest 7034872]

Is there new material in here that is not already published elsewhere, or is this one of those things where they take a bunch of already-published material from various sources and pull it all together around the theme of Númenor?

Never mind--the article answers my question:

Sibley has gone through the entire published works by Tolkien, and provides new introductions and commentaries to bring all the pieces of Tolkien’s original content together.

 

[Immeril]

And here I was thinking the The Nature of Middle-earth was going to be the last one.

Is there new material in here that is not already published elsewhere, or is this one of those things where they take a bunch of already-published material from various sources and pull it all together around the theme of Númenor?

Nature was billed by HarperCollins as the "first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth". So I'm quite certain that this one is a compilation of previously published material.

EDIT: Announcement for Nature.

 

[trappedslider]

nvm

 

[Mannahnin]

The Fall of Númenor

A collected novel of Tolkiens second age stories edited together as a coherent book.

I should check it out. I really enjoyed The Children of Hurin, though I've never been able to make much headway with The Silmarillion.

 

[darjr]

I should check it out. I really enjoyed The Children of Hurin, though I've never been able to make much headway with The Silmarillion.

I’d like to have these collected together and in a semblance of order. And knowing Christopher was involved, at least early on, helping to make a narrative of sorts, has me intrigued.

 

[eyeheartawk]

This looks interesting. Personally, I'm kinda bummed we never got the below. Sounded really interesting. Like, actually actually interesting, not jogging slowly and singing around campfires for chapters on end, interesting.

 

[GreyLord]

Interestingly...I think J.R.R. Tolkien has had more Fantasy Books released after he died than he did when he was living...by a good fair amount.