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03-21-2007, 12:26 PM | #1 | |
Illustrious Ulair
Join Date: Aug 2002
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A 'darker' Hobbit
Among all the fuss surrounding CoH we seem to have forgotten the other major Tolkien related publishing event of this year.
I found this on a search about the 'Mr Baggins: A History of the Hobbit' (the equivalent, I suppose of HoM-e for TH): Quote:
I'm assuming that this '3rd edition' will basically show Tolkien's attempt to re-write TH along the lines of what we have in The Quest of Erebor. Of course, its difficult to discuss the details of a book that hasn't been published yet, but it just got me wondering whether we'd consider such a 're-write' as 'better' than the version we have. If Rateliff is correct that this version, if completed, would have been the '3rd Edition' then this 'darker' version would have replaced the one we have - in the same way that the 2nd edition would have replaced the 1st. Would we have missed the 'lighter' version of the story - the 'children's book'? Personally, I'm looking forward to reading 'Mr Baggins' as much as CoH. Any thoughts? (Oh, & btw, there's a new edition of Mr Bliss out in October) |
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