This will probably be the only Tolkien book that I don't buy.
The timing is too questionable.
It has come as a surprise to many, since Christopher - who is 93 - described the 2017 release of Beren and Luthien as "(presumptively) my last book in the long series of editions of my father's writings".
I think that if there was enough written, that he would have published it already. I am guessing that it was not published in past because it was little more than an outline. But a 93 year old man is easy to manipulate and is now being pressed to release a mostly ghost-written book as a cash grab by greedy people who don't care about Tolkiens legacy.
I'm just speculating, and I hope I am wrong, but that's how it feels.
This will probably be the only Tolkien book that I don't buy.
The timing is too questionable.
> It has come as a surprise to many, since Christopher - who is 93 - described the 2017 release of Beren and Luthien as "(presumptively) my last book in the long series of editions of my father's writings".
I think that if there was enough written, that he would have published it already. I am guessing that it was not published in past because it was little more than an outline. But a 93 year old man is easy to manipulate and is now being pressed to release a mostly ghost-written book as a cash grab by greedy people who don't care about Tolkiens legacy.
I'm just speculating, and I hope I am wrong, but that's how it feels.
This will probably be the only Tolkien book that I don't buy.
The timing is too questionable.
I think that if there was enough written, that he would have published it already. I am guessing that it was not published in past because it was little more than an outline. But a 93 year old man is easy to manipulate and is now being pressed to release a mostly ghost-written book as a cash grab by greedy people who don't care about Tolkiens legacy.
I'm just speculating, and I hope I am wrong, but that's how it feels.