A Familiar Ring

Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien, has recently finished one of his father's unfinished Middle-earth tales, The Children of Hurin. He's done it before with other stories, so there's nothing that unusual here. But I'm entertained by the quote he gave in this article.

"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.

The case would be... what? The New Line royalties on the films has now trickled off, and it's time to find a new source of income?