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Post by Haldir on Sept 29, 2006 14:39:24 GMT -5
Hmm I wonder if there are book spoilers we can look at on the net ... *searches madly*
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Post by Luthien on Sept 29, 2006 17:04:39 GMT -5
I also think Amazon.com is a good sight, as well as ebay.com . You need to be careful with ebay though- make sure you look at the sellers feedback before you buy from them. They get ratings from people they've sold to depending on how honest they were and how easy to work with.
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Post by Anwyn on Sept 30, 2006 22:18:39 GMT -5
Definately be careful with Ebay, not only will you most likely pay waaaaaay more than you would from a bookstore site, there is always that unpleasant chance that the seller will not come through on part of there deal. That happened to me once, I sent the money order and never got what I had won, It wasn't much a huge amount of money, under $20 but still it was more than enough to permently put me off.
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Post by Luthien on Oct 2, 2006 15:32:11 GMT -5
That can happen, yes, but if you search for deals and be careful of who you buy from you can also get some great deals.
So has anyone found any spoilers?
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Post by Lomion on Oct 3, 2006 8:06:07 GMT -5
The Children of Húrin, begun in 1918, was one of three 'Great Tales' J.R.R. Tolkien worked on throughout his life, though he never realised his ambition to see it published. Though familiar to many fans from extracts and references within other Tolkien books, it has long been assumed that the story would forever remain an 'unfinished tale'. Now reconstructed by Christopher Tolkien, painstakingly editing together the complete work from his father's many drafts, this book is the culmination of a tireless thirty-year endeavour by him to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's vast body of unpublished work to a wide audience.
Christopher Tolkien said: "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 Húrin as an independent work, between its own covers, with a minimum of editorial presence, and above all in continuous narrative without gaps or interruptions, if this could be done without distortion or invention, despite the unfinished state in which he left some parts of it."
Having drawn the distinctive maps for the original The Lord of the Rings more than 50 years ago, Christopher has also created a detailed new map for this book. In addition, it will include a jacket and colour paintings by Alan Lee, illustrator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Centenary Edition and Oscar®-winning designer of the film trilogy.
The Lord of the Rings was already acclaimed worldwide as the most popular book of the 20th Century before the blockbuster films in 2001-3 broke new ground and inspired millions more to read J.R.R. Tolkien's books - an additional 50 million copies were sold, leaving new fans wanting more. The Children of Húrin will be published by HarperCollins in April 2007, and on the same day in the United States by Houghton Mifflin.
Victoria Barnsley, CEO and Publisher of HarperCollins Publishers, said: "This epic story of adventure, tragedy, fellowship and heroism stands as one of the finest expressions of J.R.R. Tolkien's skills as a storyteller. With a narrative as dramatic and powerful as anything contained within The Lord of the Rings, it can now be read and enjoyed as Tolkien originally intended, and will doubtless be a revelation for millions of fans around the world."
No spoiler but I really cannot wait.
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Oct 4, 2006 11:36:32 GMT -5
Me either! It said when it was coming out on CNN but I forget. Next June or something?
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Post by Anwyn on Oct 4, 2006 14:45:52 GMT -5
I am so incredibly pleased that Alan Lee is going to be designing the cover for the book, Though it sounds like it is going to be in hardback if it was a jacket. I know you can't judge a book by its cover, but I do pay attention to such things and as it stands my favorite cover is the one to my copy of the Sil, very simple but extremely intriguing.
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Post by Lomion on Oct 5, 2006 4:41:34 GMT -5
April 2007, so 6 months mainly
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Post by Anwyn on Oct 6, 2006 21:59:57 GMT -5
Score! To put it in a matter of months does make the wait seem shorter, instead of thinking of the "Thats next year!" sense, lol
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Oct 11, 2006 20:58:21 GMT -5
True true. I can't wait! And the Alan Lee thing is great. I wonder how long it will be until it becomes a movie...if it's that kind of book. If it's another Silmarillion, then that's out of the question, but I think Jackson should jump all over this! Reunite the cast! Okay, yes, I'm being unoptomistic. It's just the LOTR cast fit so perfectly together!
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Post by Luthien on Oct 12, 2006 10:38:42 GMT -5
ermmm... did you mean optimistic?
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Post by Haldir on Jan 21, 2007 22:07:57 GMT -5
True true. I can't wait! And the Alan Lee thing is great. I wonder how long it will be until it becomes a movie...if it's that kind of book. If it's another Silmarillion, then that's out of the question, but I think Jackson should jump all over this! Reunite the cast! Okay, yes, I'm being unoptomistic. It's just the LOTR cast fit so perfectly together! LoL.. they can't play their ancestors... And this book can't be made into a movie anyway. The other books haven't even been considered. |
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Post by lasseg on Jan 22, 2007 0:33:52 GMT -5
LoL.. they can't play their ancestors... I don't see why not. Different make up, prosthetics, different wigs...We probably wouldn't be able to tell which actor was playing which character. ;D Though, if they casted Orlando Bloom or Craig Parker as anything but elves, we'd all probably die of shock/horror. After seeing how well the Trilogy did, I wouldn't be surprised if the movie studios were all over reconsidering that stance. If they can make umpteen billion Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies, surely someone has to have the good taste to run with a plot that has more to it than gore and big-busted women falling down all over the place so they can be murdered by the nightmare/masked killer. |
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Post by Haldir on Jan 22, 2007 7:17:56 GMT -5
I dunno.. they're just too beautiful to be made into a movie. I know I wouldn't want to see someone like Uma Thurman or Jessica Simpson as a Vala. *dies in fright*
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Post by lasseg on Jan 22, 2007 10:16:37 GMT -5
I dunno.. they're just too beautiful to be made into a movie. I know I wouldn't want to see someone like Uma Thurman or Jessica Simpson as a Vala. *dies in fright* |
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