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New Tolkien Story To be Published
vingilot writes "CNN reports that Christopher Tolkien has edited and will release a new book by his father. From the article: 'Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on "The Children of Hurin," an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of "The Children of Hurin," which includes the elves and dwarfs of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and other works, have been published before.'"
Tolkein obviously didn't want this book published. Now his greedy kid is capitalizing on his fathers name just to make some cash and hurt Tolkein's reputation by publishing a book not up to his usual quality.
Christopher Tolkein is an asshole. He greedily hangs onto the JRRT manuscripts he's hoarded, "completing" them when he finds the time, then releases unreadable garbage. The Silmarillion, which he barely touched, was OK, but clearly lacked the JRRT editing which produced the LotR masterpieces. Unfinished Tales should have been left unfinished, though mostly JRRT content. Tales from the Elvish showed that CT is a poser putting out worthless crap, as has everything else following.
To complete the picture, CT also said the LotR movies were bad, because Jackson wouldn't let him butcher it (or get much more money for his "efforts").
The more CT touches anything, the worse it is. And despite the greatest role model in the world, he's no Frodo to JRRT's Bilbo.
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He doesn't let anyone else work on his father's manuscripts before he publishes them. I've never met the guy, but I tried to read his work, and felt used as a reader, used to increase the wealth and stature of Christoper Tolkien despite his lack of any qualifications but legal right. That makes him a greedy asshole. Which is based on my literary opinion, and of course my basic understanding that others are better at writing than he is.
Again, have you read those books? Apparently not, as you're ignoring that question. Tell me more about baseless...
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The Silmarillion is basically a collection of notes shuffled into chronological order. While I am glad they were made available, it doesn't change the fact that C. Tolkien is a talentless profiteering hack, who went well beyond any normal standard in overmarketing.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Clearly and purely J.R.R, Tolkien all the way? I don't bloody think so!
There is no proof, of course, that Silmarilion was not written by J.R.R., but it is so devoid of J.R.R.'s recognizable style, livelyhood, poetry, and so
Those aren't "modern American Sci-Fi/Fantasy writers," they're "modern American Sci-Fi/Fantasy shitty writers." There are plenty of great science fiction writers out there, writing serious science fiction (can't speak for fantasy). But if all you're looking at are the crappy pulp hacks, of course you're going to be disappointed.
As always, 90% of everything is pure shit.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.