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Elven
04-13-2009, 04:34 PM
The latest collaborative offering of Tolkien and his son Christopher is being released in just a few weeks - April 30th.


From the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/07/tolkien-norse-legend): Tolkien put the tales of Sigurd the Völsung and the fall of the Niflungs into narrative verse while he was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and 1930s - before he wrote his most famous works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which have sold 150m copies worldwide.

Who's planning to buy?
Emmie
04-18-2009, 03:47 AM
I'll probably read a page or two in the bookstore before I make a decision. Definitely very interesting, though - I really like a lot of the poetry from The Lord of the Rings.
Ring Lunatic
04-19-2009, 09:53 AM
I'm not sure yet. I think I'll do as Emmie and read a bit of it in the bookshop before I plan to buy it. I still haven't read the Children of Hurin either!
Elven
04-19-2009, 12:47 PM
Children of Hurin is pretty good. Not as good as LotR/Hobbit, but I did enjoy having a new Tolkien book set in that universe to read. :)
MithrilBox
04-21-2009, 05:20 PM
I'm also going to be looking at it in the bookstore first. Some of the poems from LOTR are pretty good, though I personally didn't feel that all of them were. (Also, if this was written before LOTR, and finished by someone other than JRR Tolkien, it might not be as good for that reason...)
Crichton
04-23-2009, 09:35 AM
I come with caution to everything new but probably I will buy it when it will be released in Poland (I hope it will be, we don't have books that was in USA 3 years ago).
Clarett
04-25-2009, 08:42 AM
Yeah, I MUST buy it! That's soooo great! ^.^ Nice day to everyone!
Lanyare
12-05-2009, 02:31 PM
There was never any question about it for me... I bought it, without even reading a couple of pages first...
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to reading it just yet, but I most definitely will!

And, I really liked Children of Húrin as well.
Sowen
04-11-2010, 04:21 PM
I have read some of it in the book store as well. What I didn't like there was a lot of writing which explained and discussed the whole story - book seemed to be very thick but the right poem was not very long. Anyway, probably I have to buy it in my own language to understand it better (Tolkiens have quite difficoult Enlish for me) to enjoy it fully.