>>>Just learn the other day that JRR Tolkien's son, Christopher, is publishing a new book based on his father's writings, and this book happens to be about one of my favourite stories from The Silmarillion, and I thought on passing the news around <g>
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>>>The Children of Húrin
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>>I HATE this kind of publication. JRR, the one who was working on this unpublished book (since 1918), either never completed it or didn't consider it suitable for publication. Now his son wants to put it on the market -- with a $75 retail price! What a parasite. I hope it sells about 8 copies.
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>It does smack of riding his dad's coat-tails and salivating at the recent success of the LOTR films (didn't he receive enough on his dad's estate from that anyway?). I never read The Silmarillion but have been meaning to.

Maybe this will help. I know people who hated it, and I know some who loved it.

If that doesn't help enough, I'm in the group that thought it was absolutely brilliant.