JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years (bbc.com)

seoras quotes a report from BBC: A new book by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is going on sale -- 100 years after it was first conceived. Beren and Luthien has been described as a "very personal story" that the Oxford professor thought up after returning from the Battle of the Somme. It was edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and contains versions of a tale that became part of The Silmarillion. The book features illustrations by Alan Lee, who won an Academy Award for his work on Peter Jackson's film trilogy. It is being published on Thursday by HarperCollins on the 10th anniversary of the last Middle Earth book, The Children of Hurin.

Comments

Re:How about copyright?

[Zocalo]

Say what you like about milking a legacy with copyright, you can't really accuse Christopher Tolkein of failing to earn his share of it or putting the time in - he's in his 90s and still going! Not only did he draw the original maps for Lord of the Rings (they are signed with his initials, C.J.R.T.) but he put in a huge amount of effort editing his father's writings to produce 12-volumes of The History of Middle-earth, on top of the effort to finish the various other posthumously published works by JRR Tolkein.

Re:Hollywood

[lgw]

Tolkien died after the first Mickey Mouse film, so presumably his stuff will never enter the public domain.