http://www.amazon.com/Children-Hurin-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0618894640
first full Tolkien book in 30 years

I smell a new Blind Guardian album!

I pre ordered mine a few weeks back...

Rowan ought to be replying to this.

I bet a movie adaption will come out before the book.

thats awesome.

I learned the hard way with that Douglass Adams book that came out shortly after his death:

People tend to write much worse books when they're dead.

I've never read history of middle earth, or similarian, so I don't know how good the stuff Tolkiens son pieced together is. I for one am weary, though.

he is tired

2pac syndrome

dreadkill said:

wea·ry (wîr'ē) Pronunciation Key
adj. wea·ri·er, wea·ri·est

1. Physically or mentally fatigued.
2. Expressive of or prompted by fatigue: a weary smile.
3. Having one's interest, forbearance, or indulgence worn out: weary of delays.
4. Causing fatigue; tiresome: a weary wait.

ha, the context made it seem like you were WARY of reading a book pieced together by tolkien.

dreadkill said:

nah, I meant weary, as in "from my past experience with the Douglas Adams book, I am weary of a posthumous tolkien book."

actually, on second thought, it still seems like an odd use of the word. Maybe I did mean wary.

no, weary is correct.

actually, depending on the context, they are both correct.

The similarian was put together well its just a hard read for the first like 50-60 pages

ArrowHead NLI said:

I am also weary of this. If it took this long to piece another book together how good can it be? But The Silmarilian was good in my opinion. I havn't read it for 5 years or something, but I remember it being really good except for a few chapters in the middle that for some reason couldn't hold my interest. I really should read it again though.

The Silmarillion is awesome. In some ways it's a lot better than the Ring trilogy. The mythologies are much more primal and grander in scale

brian_dc nli said:

Wow, took me a hot minute to even notice this thread. Christopher Tolkien's writing style is definitely different and distinct from his dads but they both show this really strong appreciation for trying to tell epic tales in the new-old mythology J.R.R. was trying to create. The History of Middle Earth and Unfinished Tales of Middle Earth and Numenor are pretty good, unfortunately some of it got a bit dry because it was just the bare bones of notes that Tolkien had written and Christopher trying his damnest to interpret it but not being really exact.