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...Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher...
There are two kinds of Tolkien fan: the day-trippers, who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and let it go at that, and the hard core--the mighty Uruk-hai of Tolkien fans--who have delved into The Silmarillion and grok the deep history of Middle-earth. The latter group will snap up The Children of Húrin, a "new" tale of Middle-earth cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien out of manuscripts left behind by his dad J.R.R. But there's a lot there for the weekend warrior...
...Tolkien fans. There are the day trippers, the weekend warriors, who've read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and seen the movies and let it go at that. Then there are the hardcore - the Uruk-hai of Tolkien readers - who have delved further, into The Silmarillion and beyond, who seriously grok the deep history and elaborate geography and endless mystical genealogies of Middle Earth. Now there's a "new" work of Tolkien fiction called The Children of Húrin, cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R., out of manuscripts left behind...
...caretaker and editor of his father's work. Exceedingly close to his father growing up, he became the keeper of all things hobbit upon J.R.R.'s death in 1973. This is not the first J.R.R. Tolkien book that Christopher has had a hand in. In 1977, he published The Silmarillion, an esoteric compendium of his father's stories that continues the Middle-earth mythology and is a required text for Tolkien scholars and enthusiasts. A quiet, private man, Christopher is now 81 and lives in France, where he has sought to evade obsessive fans and media pressure. There...
...only does the project of a prequel seduce Lucas into gossiping about his own characters, but his merchandising franchise brings his universe even lower: the army of laserbolt statistics and shallow Silmarillion-esque histories that he has spawned have chanined and tempted him into lame storytelling. The entire franchise now seems to bend over backwards, ugly and vacuous, in order to provide all these salivating "fans" with satisfaction...