Its late and I can’t sleep, so I was just browsing the net when I came upon something that I thought was a figment of my exhausted state. Apparently JRR Tolkien has released a new book…which must have been extremely difficult considering the fact that he is already dead, and has been so for quite some time. The book, The Children of Hurin, was actually constructed by Christopher Tolkien from his fathers manuscripts. I have already order the book and plan to read it with cautious skepticism. Hopefully the book will come off as an authentic work of JRR Tolkien, which would be appreciated by his millions of fans.
It is way too late for this much information.
Oh, one last thing, according to Sci Fi Channel’s The Sci Fi Weekly Newsletter, Movie Studios are already scrambling to acquire the rights to the story. Is everything always about money?:
clipped from www.scifi.com
Studios Stalk Tolkien’s Hurin
David Brawn, director at Tolkien publisher HarperCollins, told Reuters that the initial worldwide print run for the new book, featuring illustrations by Oscar winner Alan Lee, was 500,000 and added that Hollywood studios are eager to buy the film rights of the new book.
“We all want this first and foremost to enjoy life as a book,” Brawn told Reuters. “No one’s saying never to a film, [but] the film rights are reserved by the estate. We want to see what reaction it gets and then let it run its course.”
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