{"id":4678,"date":"2006-09-18T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/09\/18\/the-children-of-hurin\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T02:45:50","slug":"the-children-of-hurin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/09\/the-children-of-hurin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children of Hurin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on &quot;The Children of Hurin,&quot; an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of &quot;The Children of Hurin,&quot; which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien&#8217;s &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; and other works, have been published before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father&#8217;s long version of the legend of the &#8216;Children of Hurin&#8217; as an independent work, between its own covers,&quot; Christopher Tolkien said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The new book will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in England.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/09\/18\/books.newtolkien.ap\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" width=\"76\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Christopher Tolkien also drew the original maps for The Lord of the Rings so it will be interesting to see how he carries on his father&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}