The Children of Húrin

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:57 pm

Mine is a first edition of the Sil--I bought it for 25 cents at a used book sale!

Beren · Post by **Beren** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:11 am

Sad enough there where so many prints of the 1977 2nd impression that it is not worth a lot at all. It is a good example of a 1st edition which is not valuable, because of the amount that where printed. No less then 5 printing companies here printing The Silmarillion at that time! You see even then there was a hype...

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:13 pm

Ah, but it is worth a lot to me.

Interesting information, though, Beren. Wonder why Christopher chose deal with so many publishers?

Beren · Post by **Beren** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:44 pm

The demand was so high that it was impossible for one printer to handle. So it was needed that there where many companies involved to get so many The Silmarillion's printed. After a lot of research we are now sure that the very first books where printed by Clowes and therefor these are the most valuable. Also because the very first print run of the first edition was particular smaller then the others. If you take 5 different 1977 The Silmarillion's you will see a different printer mentioned every time. Yet it is hard to find the Clowes one.

Secondly there where also a lot of book club editions made also at the same time. These are also first editions and most of the time where taken from the normal printing run and then bound by the book clubs. In total there are at least 9 variations possible. I might write an article about this one day!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:41 am

Merry wrote:Mine is a first edition of the Sil--I bought it for 25 cents at a used book sale!

Beren wrote:Sad enough there where so many prints of the 1977 2nd impression that it is not worth a lot at all.

Fascinating stuff about the first editions! Very different from the first printing of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien would have felt his long faith in the Sil fully vindictated wouldn't he?

Estel · Post by **Estel** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:32 pm

Beren wrote:I'm looking forward to this tale! It is my quest to find out all i can about this book. I have already pre-ordered the hardback, the deluxe edition and am now waiting for more info about the signed deluxe edition... I just neeeeed to have that one.
April will be very exciting!

Don't know where you found info about a signed edition, just wanted to tell everyone who will be in or near London April 19th, that Alan Lee will sign the book at Forbidden Planet (fantasy, sc-fi, comics bookstore etc) in Shaftesbury Avenue between 6 and 7 pm. Be nice to him.

Also by mail order, call 020 7803 1900.

Beren · Post by **Beren** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:58 am

And here are images of the Tolkien Calendar and diary 2008 featuring the art of Children of Hurin, plus some more udates of the Children of Hurin FAQ.

Beren · Post by **Beren** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:21 am

Have been updating the Children of Hurin FAQ! After spending some hours at the library of congress backhand i managed to find the table of contents of the Children of Hurin. This is of course of a proof copy. For US copy right law they need to dump a copy there, so that is how i came to the idea to look there to find the contents! Also added the diary and calendar which will be Children of Hurin related in 2008, a summary of the tale of Children of Hurin and some more info on the different covers and editions... enjoy!

Beren · Post by **Beren** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:13 pm

Got the honor to post the first illustration by Alan Lee from the Children of Hurin at my site! Wonderful!!

Philipa · Post by **Philipa** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:47 pm

Wow, that is really wonderful Beren.

The painting is quite stunning.

The image can be found here.

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:02 pm

wonderful, isn't it!!!

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:15 pm

Wow! Very close to my imagination. What a gift.

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:49 pm

What an honour, Beren, and what a fantastic picture. I

as always to the wonderful Mr Lee.

Beren · Post by **Beren** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:05 pm

Hi folks, it has been a while, but have been very busy. Have been organizing a compete Tolkien event ONLINE for the Release of the Children of Hurin. It will be a fun party full of treats, we will give away wonderful prizes, have fantastic guests like Michael Drout, John Garth, Verlyn Flieger, Roger Garland, Diana Glyer, David Brawn, and many more...

You can find the schedule here: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Chil ... y/Schedule

More info on the event you can find at:
http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/The ... _Party.php
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Chil ... ease_Party

Questions for the guest can be found here:
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Chil ... /Questions
Please feel free to ask the other guests what you wish to know.

Hope you all come over to chat and enjoy yourselves and hopefully win some nice prizes!

Philipa · Post by **Philipa** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:10 pm

Thank you for the invitation Beren. It looks like a lot of work but in the end it will go down in history as Bilbo's 111 birthday party did.