New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published

Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by nottorp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:19AM (#31847514)

> I think this underestimates the huge job of publishing Tolkien's manuscripts. HoME was published from 1983 to 1996 and spans 12 volumes and some 5400 pages, and still doesn't contain everything!

I passed on that too. Mostly because I thought it will be a jumble of inconsistent stories. Or not what Tolkien would have wanted anyway.

But it was at least published before the movies... and the 9 hour Hobbit movie that should have been 90 minutes... and before a series that has nothing to do with LoTR.

While this new one, I bet it's a soul less professionally written work. Kinda like the Dune "sequels".

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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by bombcar on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:26AM (#31848045)

If the Silmarillion is the “Old Testament” to LotR then the HoME is like historical versions/documents of the same for Bible commentary.

The Children of Huron is basically taking one story and fleshing it out.

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