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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.
WRONG.
He wrote a little of it in a rough draft format, then his son wrote everything else. At best it's a co-story, but this is a Christopher Tolkien story.
I'll probably buy it.
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If Tolkien is so smart how come he's dead?
Meanwhile, movie industry starts planning to make 2 trilogies of 150min films out of this book.
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Why would Slashdot care about a someone who was so deeply committed to his Christian faith? This website is for atheists only!
I thought I procrastinated putting things off, good to know someone else has me beat by 99 years.
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The Silmarillion is worth a read if you have enough imagination to fill in some of the visual details yourself; it is in a sort of abstract epic writing style one level more removed from the writing in LOTR, so many people have trouble with it, but there are beautiful moments in it if you can read it. For example, it opens with a description of music sung by beings of great power at the beginning of time, and also of the discord that the great enemy tries to sing into the music.
And there are high hosts of elves, and fights of elven-kings, and brave acts of love.
Beren and Luthien is one of the classic grand love stories of high fantasy. I hope this version is a good one, but whether it is or isn't you should still check out the other one.
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I mean he's dead, the story was written 100 years ago but I guess they will change the law again, so that his grand-grand-grand-grand-children won't have to lift a finger and actually _work_.
They die.
Would you prefer an endless life where your body decays more and more and you are reduced to a drooling idiot (more than you are today, anyway) who cannot even hold their head in one direction to look at the world around them because their muscles are so degraded?
Death is the end to your life.
Including all the bad bits.
If you celebrated your life, you should have no regrets about death and why should you fear it and refuse to accept it?
I'll wait for the 3 part, 6 hour Peter Jackson rendition of the single book story
The story of Beren and Luthien is thoroughly covered in verse in The Lays of Beleriand
Is it a new story? I've read somewhere that it's just a re-edition. How much different is it from the Silmarillion's chapter?
I obviously didn't bother to RTFA.
...and their abuse of copyright.
If you want to read an important SciFi/Fantasy book, try Never Let Me Go.
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If only the book had "Trump" in every paragraph our doofus-in-chief might be able to read it. What a stupid, ass-hat. How dumb must one be to have voted for a man whose staff has to insert his name into intelligence briefings to try and get him to read them?
Like star warz.
That's not what the copyright industry claims. What happened was that the international standard for the copyright term had been the life of the author's grandchildren, with the exception of the United States. In the 1970s, the United States aligned itself with the international standard. But over the course of the twentieth century, health care improvements caused people to live longer and have babies later. This led first the European Union and then the United States to update the details of what "life of grandchildren" is supposed to mean without changing the spirit of the standard. (Source: "The Copyright Term Red Herring" by Leo Lichtman)
The timing between the US joining the international standard and the international standard reflecting human longevity increase is unfortunate but still coincidental, as the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft recognized when failing to find "legislative misbehavior" in the 1998 extension. In theory, if the Congress thinks of a good enough excuse for a third successive extension, it could squeeze another one past the Supreme Court. But barring further drastic improvements in longevity, I can't find an excuse that would keep a third extension from appearing as "legislative misbehavior".
Thus the three short films establishing the character Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024, after the end of the 95th Gregorian calendar year after the films' first publication. They will enter the public domain in the European Union on January 1, 2037, after the end of the 70th Gregorian calendar year after the death of Walter Elias Disney.
Will this book make the cut? Time will tell...