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

Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by lc9er on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:59AM (#31849213)

Have you read the Kevin Anderson/Brian Herbert Dune books? Anderson's writing style is much more digestible than the source material, but I don't think it really added anything to the Dune universe.

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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by nicolas_t on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:07AM (#31849323)

The problem is that I have never seen Kevin Anderson write a single decent book even outside of Dune. He even managed the feat of writing the worst Star Wars books which, given how mediocre the average Star Wars novel is, is no mean feat.

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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by jerrysievert on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:50AM (#31850839)

> I don't think it really added anything to the Dune universe

I actually feel that some of the cannon changes detracted from the dune universe, which is even worse than not adding anything to it.

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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by gerikson on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:27PM (#31852388)

I got half-way through the first and then abandoned it in disgust.

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