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JRR Tolkien’s son completes the unfinished The Children of Hurin

Thursday, 21 September 2006

JRR Tolkien's son completes the unfinished The Children of Hurin

Christopher Tolkien, who is the son of the deceased author of The Lord of the Rings, has edited an unfinished book by JRR Tolkien into a completed work and it is ready for publication next year.

Christopher Tolkien has spent 30 years working on The Children of Hurin, which his father started in 1918 and then abandoned, although some extracts have been published.

"It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father's long version of the legend of The Children of Hurin as an independent work, between its own covers," Christopher Tolkien said in a statement.

The story is about the elves and dwarves that feature in much of the work of JRR Tolkien, who died in Oxford on 2 September 1973, aged 81.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy has sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into three very successful films on general release.

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