Tolkien’s son has completed the last novel that his father was working on when he died in 1971. The new novel called The Children of Húrin will be released worldwide on 17 April, which is 89 years after Tolkien first started on the unfinished work.

The book is certain to be a huge hit and it has been illustrated by the hugely talented artist Alan Lee, who won an Oscar for art direction on The Return of The King.

The Children of Húrin takes the reader back to a time long before The Lord of the Rings, in an area of Middle-earth that was to be drowned before ever Hobbits appeared, and when the great enemy was still the fallen Vala, Morgoth, and Sauron only his lieutenant. This heroic romance is the tale of the Man, Húrin, who dared to defy Morgoth’s force of evil, and his family’s tragic destiny, as it follows his son Túrin Turambar’s travails through the lost world of Beleriand.

I’m looking forward to it, it’s definitely on my “must read” list.

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