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"The Children of Hurin", which Tolkien began in 1918, will be in bookshops on April 17, the Independent on Sunday added. The author's son, Christopher, spent 30 years completing the story from the many drafts produced by his father.
Publisher HarperCollins is keeping exact details of the story under close wraps...
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Don't you love the press?
(Just in case there are any newbies reading this, JRRT worked on the Narn i*Chin Hurin between about 1955 and 1959, although the earliest version of Turin's story was written as part of The Book of Lost Tales during or just after WWI. Christopher Tolkien has only been working on this particular book for about 2 years, although he has been editing his father's papers generally for over 30. And of course "details of the story" have been well-known since 1980, if not 1977).