Children of Hurin - "new" Tolkien novel

[Croesus]

Yeah Turin is the son of Hurin.

I think you are referring to a brief glimpse Tuor got of Turin (his cousin) at one point (Tuor being the son of Huor - and Huor being the brother of Hurin).

...well at least that's how I remember things - someone please correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct:

At length they [Tuor and Voronwe, elf of Gondolin] came in their journeying to the Pools of Ivrin, and looked with grief on the defilement wrought there by the passage of Glaurung the Dragon; but even as they gazed upon it they saw one going northward in haste, and he a tall Man, clad in black, and bearing a black sword. But they knew not who he was, nor anything of what had befallen in the south; and he passed them by, and they said no word.

 

[sniffles]

Yeah Turin is the son of Hurin.


I think you are referring to a brief glimpse Tuor got of Turin (his cousin) at one point (Tuor being the son of Huor - and Huor being the brother of Hurin).

...well at least that's how I remember things - someone please correct me if I am wrong.

And yeah I've been looking forward to this for some time, as Turin is one of my favourite characters from the first age

Oops. That's what I get for not looking it up - and I've got the Silmarillion on my PDA, too!
Too many similar names.

 

[Kris]

I also read on a couple of other forums/sites that Hollywood is already sniffing around for movie rights ...which could be very cool if done right. Imagine seeing glimpses of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad on the big screen (I imagine in a similar fashion to the opening of the fellowship movie)

Also I'm not quite sure what the deal is with the helmet Turin is wearing on the book's cover - it's clearly the dragon helm - but shouldn't it have a visor?

 

[Welverin]

Looks like Amazon will be selling this edition for less than $50, so I'll likely pick it up (to go with the slipcased editions of Hobbit and LotR in my library) and but the paperback to read next year.

Is there a version of The Silmarillion like those?

 

[Tinker Gnome]

So Tolkien is writing from beyond the grave now?

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

So Tolkien is writing from beyond the grave now?

What you didn't know?

Seriously he's a lich and he's been writing his masterwork ever since he died. His secret lair is in the sub-basements of the Oxford College of Literature. Of course there are some who deny he could possibly be a lich and insist he's actually an ascendant councilor with the deathless type.

 

[Mark CMG]

Dark, eh? Okay. I'm in.

 

[Steel_Wind]

The disturbing thing in all of this hype is the insistence that the Silmarillion was his last posthumous book.

And here I was with Unfinished Tales, by Tolkien, that seemed to fit that description. And which included stories on Turin and Hurin.

Is this an Unfinished Tales retread?

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Is this an Unfinished Tales retread?

I hope not. I'm not getting that impression, anyway. I guess we'll have to wait to find out.

I'm going to pick this one up release day; even if it is a rehash, I haven't ready any of the Unfinished Tales, so it'll be new for me. But if you want to wait I'm sure there will be those of us who finish it in a few days and can give it a quick review.

 

[Kris]

Is this an Unfinished Tales retread?

According to Adam Tolkien:

"...it is a new reworking of the complete story. Many parts of the text will be – if not identical – recognizable to the knowledgeable reader, but there are also pieces that have never appeared before. Also the format of the text, as a standalone and complete text with no editorial commentary to interrupt the tale, should in itself and in my opinion considerably transform the reading experience..."

and also

"The text of The Children of Húrin is entirely in the author's (so J.R.R. Tolkien's) words – apart from very minor reworkings of a grammatical and stylistic nature. Christopher's work has been to produce a text that is a faithful rendition of his father's writings – using many sources spaced out over decades."