Dawn writes: The Silmarillion Writers’ Guild is hosting a writing contest in honor of the thirty-year anniversary of the publication of The Silmarillion. We will be awarding banners to the Silmarillion-based stories, drabbles, poems, and essays that earn the highest word count in reviews, as well as to the reviewer who writes the most words of reviews for contest entries.
Category: Other Tolkien books
Have you finished reading The Children of Hurin and are dying to discuss it with other Tolkien fans? Or, do you need some motivation to crack open the book and start reading? Either way, the chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Children of Hurin, starting today in our Reading Room forum, is for you! We’ll be covering a chapter a week. Each week’s discussion will be led by a member of the Message Boards, and we still have openings for discussion leaders. Follow these links to read the start of the discussion, or check out the Children of Hurin discussion schedule.
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Don’t believe the mockers. The latest posthumous work of Tolkien is a masterpiece around the Wagnerian or Sophoclean theme of unconscious incest. Dragon slayers are of perennial fascination, whether they be Saint Michael the Archangel, Bel, Saint George or Perseus killing the sea monster that holds Andromeda prisoner. Modern literature has Ged, the Wizard of Earthsea, banishing the Dragon of Pendor from Ursula le Guin’s Archipelago; or even Harry Potter thrusting his sword through the mouth of the Basilisk. Yet there is no dragon of whom I have read, or whom I have seen on stage – not Fafner himself in Siegfried – who is quite so frightening as Glaurung, the dragon in JRR Tolkien’s The Children of Hurim. [More]
Harry Potter’s moon-faced mug is plastered all over the front doors of the Borders bookstore in Altamonte Springs. A life-sized rendering of the star Quidditch Seeker stands just inside the store entrance, and the sales staff wears lanyards bearing more signs of Harry’s seventh coming. Area booksellers can be forgiven for baiting their hooks as the July 21 release of the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s series approaches. But in the meantime, a much older — and some say wiser — wizard has risen from a grave deep beyond Middle-earth. This one has slashed through the Hogwarts hoopla and claimed lordship of the best-seller ring, provoking glee among legions of his mostly older, Hobbit-formed fans. [More]
Rute writes: Just to let all the fans know that in Portugal the book, ‘The Children of Hurin’ (in portuguese ‘Os Filhos de Húrin’) is going on it’s 4th edition, being relaced on april 27. The publishing house responsible for publishing Tolkien’s work, says that the book is a huge sucess, and it’s nrº 1 on the top of best selling books.
Anon-a-mouse sends along these links to the many many many reviews of ‘Children of Hurin’ over the past few weeks: