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The Children of Hurin ships today
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What is The Children Of Hurin?
The Children Of Hurin is one of the "unfinished" works left by JRR Tolkien when he died. Much like the Silmarillion (and to a lesser extent, The History Of Middle Earth), the book was for the most part fleshed out, but left in a very unfinished state.
Thankfully Tolkien's son Christopher, long ago took up the mantle of Chief Tolkien Historian and has spent the better part of his life editing these works together.
And now the biggest of these works is finally out.
Compromised party of material previously available in the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle Earth, The Children Of Hurin tells the story of Turin, and of Middle Earth in the years following The War Of Wrath.
Buy this dudes. I'm picking my copy up as soon as I get off work, all preordered at the Barnes And Noble.
The Children Of Hurin is one of the "unfinished" works left by JRR Tolkien when he died. Much like the Silmarillion (and to a lesser extent, The History Of Middle Earth), the book was for the most part fleshed out, but left in a very unfinished state.
Thankfully Tolkien's son Christopher, long ago took up the mantle of Chief Tolkien Historian and has spent the better part of his life editing these works together.
And now the biggest of these works is finally out.
Compromised party of material previously available in the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle Earth, The Children Of Hurin tells the story of Turin, and of Middle Earth in the years following The War Of Wrath.
Buy this dudes. I'm picking my copy up as soon as I get off work, all preordered at the Barnes And Noble.
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I'm interested nonetheless
Nah, early reviews say that the majority of the book is new, but many of the characters and happenings from Silm show up in it.
God damnit.
does this make me a bad person?
maybe i'll get this
i'm tired of reading books not for fun
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
unless you only show the best parts
like with the dragons or maybe that one fight
You really should read The Lord of the Rings, because it's just excellent. I didn't like the Silmarillion as much, it felt as if I were reading a history book rather than a novel.
I think it was the one that has put me off books
I'm the same way. I have read about half of each book in the trilogy, and I own a copy of The Silmarillion, but The Hobbit is the only one I've finished.
Probably because my ex and I read it to each other.
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I won't have to skip every other page because they're breaking out in song.
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Let me be the first to register shock at this.
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Have you seen my hat?
It is amazing.
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Wow I am the exact opposite of that I think Hobbit and LotR are what really got me reading.
You thinly veiled sarcasm shocks me to my core sir.
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You know, it's unlikely that this is going to happen while Christopher Tolkien is alive. He's come out a few times saying that he never would have sold the movie rights, but that happened long before he got control.
Now Royd Tolkien however, would sell tours of his grandfather's gravesite if he thought it would make him rich.
9 actually, like the ri......
I'm not going to go there.
I used to read quite a bit when I was younger. Then I read that and was like, "THIS is supposed to be great literature?" and never read anything again.
Well I have this book on the Canadian Military I've sorta been reading, sorta.
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And Fellowship completely failed the fucking thumb test.
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Probably. I'm like 20% of the way into Neuromancer and I fucking love it.
What do you recommend I read next?
Just shows that literature will always be subjective. I always found Fellowship to be the most engaging part of that massive fucking book.
In this order, after you finish Neuromancer- Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (those two will round out the universer that Nueromance takes place in) then you get into Virutal Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties. Finish off with Pattern Recognition.
I should really try to read it now.
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