The Children of Hurin

[Baak]

Funk: An unfinished book by JRR Tolkien coming into print.

[vinylrake]

Funk: An unfinished book by JRR Tolkien coming into print.

30 years? Good thing Christopher's dad was a bit more prolific. ;)

ps. Saw another article on that page that caught my interest and is one of those good articles to show to kids to demonstrate how people don't make good decisions when they are drunk. Man Bites Panda

[Baak]

ps. Saw another article on that page that caught my interest and is one of those good articles to show to kids to demonstrate how people don't make good decisions when they are drunk. Man Bites Panda

ROFL!!

Just goes to show that stupidity crosses all cultural/national boundaries!

[vinylrake]

ps. Saw another article on that page that caught my interest and is one of those good articles to show to kids to demonstrate how people don't make good decisions when they are drunk. Man Bites Panda

ROFL!!

Just goes to show that stupidity crosses all cultural/national boundaries! :lol:

I truly believe that alcohol is the great equalizer. Drink enough and everyone becomes equal (equally stupid at least).

[Baak]

Aye!

I also wonder how big The Children of Hurin is? What if it's the size of The Lord of the Rings - then I could understand 30 years editing! It might be 2000 or 3000 pages of manuscript in a box!

[vinylrake]

Aye! :D

I also wonder how big The Children of Hurin is? What if it's the size of The Lord of the Rings - then I could understand 30 years editing! It might be 2000 or 3000 pages of manuscript in a box!

I heard it's a 2-3 page short story _idea_ that Christopher is expanding INTO a 4000+ page epic.

heh, actually I didn't hear that, but it wouldn't suprise me all that much. Christopher seems to have the same affliction that Steven King's editor has - that cognitive disease that causes one to think that the bigger something is, the better it is. Of course in some industries (pr0n) that might be true as a general rule, but for an editor that kind of thinking is pretty deadly - thinking that more pages a book is, the better it is, with no thought for story, pacing, flow or the usual things one looks for in an engaging read usually isn't going to end well. [Of course I base this unfair characterization on one brief horribly failed attempt 20 years ago to get through the Silmarilion, reading a couple of Steven King's gargantuan books in the late 90's that would have made really engaging short stories]

[Baak]

Yeah, I think I got through about a page of the Silmarilion about a million years ago.

As I recall it read like a Czech phone book.