Diary of A Sane Man

As a big Tolkien fan and hardcore M.E.R.P. buff I’m stoked for this one: Tolkien, despite being dead, has just released a new book. The Children of Hurin, a 259 page tale set in Middle Earth, is out and I’m friggin’ stoked. I didn’t even know this was coming out! After having to endure a “do Gnomes exist in Middle Earth” debate in high school, I pretty much shut out other Tolkien fans and thus didn’t even hear about this bad boy until I read about it on CNN today. Suh-WEET! This isn’t some lame-ass fanboy tale set in Middle Earth written by some wanna-be Tolkien (the only thing worse are the Lovecraft fans that try to write like Lovecraft did; ain’t happenin’!). This is the real deal edited together over the past 30 years by his son. Me? I think Tolkien is really a Barrowight and is slaving away at publishing new material while guarding over his horde, but that’s just my theory.

Can you dig it? Can you dig it? CAAAAAAAAAN YOOOOOOOOU DIG IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!?!

Those of you motherfuckers that aren’t down with the works of Tolkien besides the friggin’ movies (you should be kicked in the groin until you bleed in my opinion, but this is why I’ll never hold public office), the tale of Hurin and later on Turin are a long-standing part of the Middle Earth mythology and background. This is shit that echoed down the epochs and ages as tales still sung about by Elves and men of Numenor during the time of Frodo and Bilbo. This is hardcore shit right here (but not as hardcore as the mighty, and utterly boring, Silmarillion). Speaking of the Silmarillion, the CNN article mentions that the first chapter of the “Children of Hurin” is “…dense and confusing enough to discourage casual readers“, but urges people to keep reading past it and it passes. I wish the Silmarillion could say the same. Yes, yes, I like the book, but fuck did it read like a history text book.

Oh Tolkien, you ol’ Barrowight, you keep on churning ‘em out and I’ll keep reading ‘em! I need to get this book.

Um… now.

-=Grim=-