A New Tolkien Novel Story aired: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Today, fans of fantasy writer JRR Tolkien will have cause to rejoice...or fear.
A new saga, "The Children of Hurin," hits the store shelves. A prequel of sorts to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Children of Hurin" was begun by Tolkien in 1918, and when he died in 1973 the work was still unfinished. His son, Christopher Tolkien, has taken up his father's pen and completed the task.
But how good a job did Christopher Tolkien do and how is "The Children of Hurin" as a read? Here to answer these questions and much more is Mike Drout, a Tolkien specialist and an assistant professor at Wheaton College.
