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By Stone Martindale Sep 19, 2006, 16:54 GMT

Christopher Tolkien completes unfinished Tolkien tale

An unfinished book by J.R.R. Tolkien, author of "The Lord of the Rings" series has been edited into a completed work by his son Christopher for publication next year.

Christopher Tolkien has spent 30 years working on The Children of Hurin, which his father, the Tolkien of The Hobbit fame started in 1918, and later abandoned for reasons unknown. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' character Gollum EPA/BARBARA WALTON

Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' character Gollum EPA/BARBARA WALTON

Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' character Gollum EPA/BARBARA WALTONExcerpts from The Children of Hurin have been published prior. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy has sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted by Kiwi Peter Jackson into three successful films. "It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father's long version of the legend of The Children of Hurin as an independent work, between its own covers," Christopher Tolkien said in a statement to the BBC. The story is replete with signature elves and dwarves that feature in much of Tolkien's work. Père Tolkien died in September, 1973, at age 81.

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