17th April - What Will You Be Doing?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

Call me an insufferable cynic if you must, but there's a limit to how excited I can get about the publication of a story I already own and have read many times.

The form of the Narn in this book therefore differs in a number of ways from that in UT, some of them deriving from the far more thorough study of the formidable complex of manuscripts that I made after that book was published. This lead me to different conclusions about the relations & sequence of some of the texts, chiefly in the extremely confusing evolution of the legend in the period of Turin among the Outlaws, a description & explanation of this new text of the Children of Hurin......CoH Appendix 2

You old insufferable cynic, you....

[Sir Kohran]

Well I'm excited simply because this is the first time I've been building up to the release of anything majorly Tolkien-related...and also because this is probably the last time, too, so I want to make the most of it.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by davem

You old insufferable cynic, you....

He knows he wantsssss it, precioussss....

Aiwendil - surely you want to get your mitts on the book just to see what sort of an editing job CT has made of it???

Anyway, I'm going to sneak off to me bed with the book soon as I've already started to read it and I shall continue from a recumbent position...

[Lalaith]

Lal, davem....could one of you lucky people please let me know...does the story end on the death of Turin or does it end with the death of Hurin? Bloody amazon...I got the cheap version, this is why I am being punished....

[Farael]

Curse my exam tomorrow that will keep me away from bookstores until around 4 PM (or rather, curse my sense of responsibility that will not let me stop cramming to go buy the book ASAP) but I already stopped by the bookstore to ask if they'd have copies of CoH tomorrow. When the lady working there said they would, I think I did an awful job at hiding just how excited I am about it... I wanted to smile a little bit, but all of a sudden the two ladies working there were chuckling Can't help it!! I can already picture myself tomorrow, up until three in the morning (even though I'll likely be on six hours of sleep at the most) laying down on the couch with a hot cup of tea, enjoying every word. But I better finish CoH soon... I think it's time for a re-re-re-re-re-re-re reading of LoTR as well

[Aiwendil]

Aiwendil - surely you want to get your mitts on the book just to see what sort of an editing job CT has made of it???

Oh, I certainly do. To be honest, I am actually (quite irrationally) a bit excited about this. Just not as excited as I was, for example, when I first laid my hands on HoMe X. If my grading, fortran, and homework responsibilities permit me the time tomorrow, I'll probably stroll 'round to Barnes & Noble and pick one up.

Davem – thanks for that taste of the appendix! I do hope that he offers some further explication concerning the “different conclusions about the relations & sequence of some of the texts” that he has reached. (What? Surely I’m not the only person who really enjoys CT’s textual analysis?)

[Orominuialwen]

I plan on (finally!) using the Border's gift certificate I received for Christmas two years ago...I'd meant to spend it on music, but never got around to it, so tomorrow will be the perfect occasion for its use! After all, I was still in elementary school back when Roverandom (which as far as I can tell is the next most recent of the professor's works published) and music can be bought at any time!

[Thinlómien]

My new plan for April 17th: be in school, see friends, do homework and Spanish exercises, finish reading Stephen Law's The Philosophy Gym and wait, wait, wait and wait.

Yes, wait. They don't have CoH in any bookshop yet here in Finland. I was told that they'll get it within a week. A week? Well, then I'll just wait and grumble that I'll move to some more sophisticated country one day... Like Noggie remarked, f they have Harry Potter books why don't they have CoH?