{"id":527,"date":"2007-04-17T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2007-04-17T23:59:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T06:59:27","slug":"new-tolkien-new-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/17\/new-tolkien-new-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tolkien! New Tolkien!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first <em>new<\/em> book in almost 30 years by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tolkien\">J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a> (since 1977&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Silmarillion<\/span>) has been published and as George put it, &#8220;It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s Tupac!&#8221;  I mean, Tolkien passed away in 1973 and while the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Silmarillion<\/span> was published posthumously, it was only 4 years after his death.  Now comes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Children of Hurin<\/span>, almost 35 years after died!  Tupac indeed.  Why it took his son this long to edit and publish it, I&#8217;ll never know.  I hope against all hope that it&#8217;s not because it kind of sucks and Christopher just needs money.<br \/>\nHere is brief blurb courtesy of Barnes &amp; Noble:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The book was completed by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and illustrated by renowned artist Alan Lee. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Children of H\u00farin<\/span> takes readers to an area of Middle-earth that was to be drowned before Hobbits ever appeared, at a time when the great enemies were still the fallen Vala, Morgoth, and Sauren.<br \/>\nThis is the epic tale of H\u00farin (the man who defied Morgoth&#8217;s force of evil), his family&#8217;s destiny, and his son Turin Turambar&#8217;s travails through the lost world of Beleriand. Fans will be reunited with Elves and Men, Dragons and Dwarves, and Eagles and Orcs in this stirring tale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Um, I CANNOT WAIT TO READ THIS BOOK!!!<\/strong><br \/>\nHere is a pic of the book:<\/p>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/archives\/07_04_17_M_03.jpg\" alt=\"07_04_17_M_03.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"428\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first new book in almost 30 years by J.R.R. Tolkien (since 1977&#8217;s Silmarillion) has been published and as George put it, &#8220;It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s Tupac!&#8221; I mean, Tolkien passed away in 1973 and while the Silmarillion was published posthumously, it was only 4 years after his death. Now comes The Children of Hurin, almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[381,385,645],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-literature","tag-lotr","tag-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}