The Children of Hurin Release Party

[Hyarion]

Hey guys, I just thought I'd let you know TolkienGateway.net and TolkienLibrary.com are throwing "The Children of Hurin Release Party" on April 15th-17th on irc.tolkiengateway.net There will be guests such as David Brawn from HarperCollins, Matt Blessing from Marquette University and many more. We're also giving away dozens of prizes including 3 Deluxe editions of The Children of Hurin signed by Alan Lee and Christopher Tolkien. Plenty of other activities are planned as well. We'd love to see some TTFers there :)

More information (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin_Release_Party)

We've also already started a contest to giveaway one of the signed Children of Hurin books, all you have to do is click here (http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/form.html) and use "Hurin" as the code and "signed" as the password.

If you guys have anymore guests you'd like to see or prizes you'd like to see given away just let me know and I'll see what I can do.

[Eledhwen]

Drat! Missed all that - had family events this week and couldn't do much TTF. I've already ordered the book, though.

It's a shame there isn't enough Fall of Gondolin to make a full length book.

[Chymaera]

also drat:(

[Maedhros]

It's a shame there isn't enough Fall of Gondolin to make a full length book.
This is not really true. There is more than enough and then more.
From Unfinished Tales:
The tale of Tuor and the Exiles of Gondolin (as "The Fall of Gondolin" is entitled in the early MSS) remained untouched for many years, though my father at some stage, probably between 1926 and 1930, wrote a brief, compressed version of the story to stand as part of The Silmarillion (a title which, incidentally, first appeared in his letter to The Observer of 20 February 1938); and this was changed subsequently to bring it into harmony with altered conceptions in other parts of the book. Much later he began work on an entirely refashioned account, entitled "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin." It seems very likely that this was written in 1951, when The Lord of the Rings was finished but its publication doubtful. Deeply changed in style and bearings, yet retaining many of the essentials of the story written in his youth, "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin" would have given in fine detail the which legend that constitutes the brief 23rd chapter of the published Silmarillion, but, grievously, he went no further than the coming of Tuor and Voronwë to the last gate and Tuor's sight of Gondolin across the plain of Tumladen. To his reasons for abandoning it there is no clue.
This is the text that is given here. To avoid confusion I have retitled it "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin," since it tells nothing of the fall of the city. As always with my father's writings there are variant readings, and in one short section (the approach to and passage of the river Sirion by Tuor and Voronwë) several competing forms; some minor editorial work has therefore been necessary.
It is thus the remarkable fact that the only full account that my father ever wrote of the story of Tuor's sojourn in Gondolin, his union with Idril Celebrindal, the birth of Eärendil, the treachery of Maeglin, the sack of the city, and the escape of the fugitives – a story that was a central element in his imagination of the First Age – was the narrative composed in his youth. There is no question, however, that that (most remarkable) narrative is not suitable for inclusion in this book. It is written in the extreme archaistic style that my father employed at that time, and it inevitably embodies conceptions out of keeping with the world of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion in its published form. It belongs with the rest of the earliest phase of the mythology, "the Book of Lost Tales": itself a very substantial work, of the utmost interest to one concerned with the origins of Middle-earth, but requiring to be presented in a lengthy and complex study if at all.

There is more than enough material to make it, but the editorial alterations would be just as great.

[Eledhwen]

This is not really true. There is more than enough and then more.
From Unfinished Tales:

There is more than enough material to make it, but the editorial alterations would be just as great.I'll take the risk of buying it if CT will take the risk of editing it.

[Maedhros]

I'll take the risk of buying it if CT will take the risk of editing it.
Would you take the risk of reading an edited version of it, not done by CT?

[Eledhwen]

Would you take the risk of reading an edited version of it, not done by CT?Eek!:eek: Maybe I'd borrow it from the library first. I've disagreed with too many reviewers and critics to trust those guys' opinions with hard cash.

[Maedhros]

Eek! Maybe I'd borrow it from the library first. I've disagreed with too many reviewers and critics to trust those guys' opinions with hard cash.
There is no version of the Fall of Gondolin edited by someone who is not CT published. I asked you if you would read a version that is edited by someone else (various persons) not buy it.

[Grond]

There is no version of the Fall of Gondolin edited by someone who is not CT published. I asked you if you would read a version that is edited by someone else (various persons) not buy it.

Hail and well met you spawn of Feanor. Do you remember your fanatic friend Grond???

I'm getting the Deluxe UK version for my birthday in May. It's supposed to be a surprise but I saw the credit card receipt. :)

Cheers,

grond

[Maedhros]

Wow, how have you been doing? It's great to see you now. It was not so long ago, that I was getting banned from some other Tolkien sites and you were there to help me.

Great to hear from you.