Christopher Tolkien to finish lost Middle Earth novel

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Originally Posted by Hilde Bracegirdle

Just popping in to ask if anyone has heard anything about how well CoH is selling.

Its doing very well, apparently

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/artand...s_Tolkien.html

"The Children of Hurin," which came out April 17, has topped numerous best-seller lists and Houghton Mifflin has increased its printing from 250,000 to 550,000. In Britain, copies in print have been raised from 250,000 to 360,000.

Michael Gove in the Times thinks

Children of hype

Belting along the M4 the other day, I saw a massive poster stretched across a tower block advertising the new “Tolkien” novel The Children of Hurin. It’s clear the publishers believe that they’ve unearthed a goldmine. But the key question as to whether or not his book is a success is not how big the ad spend is, but how many people will be happy to be seen with that iconic book cover under their arms, or on their laps, on our buses and in our parks. And my guess is that there won’t be many people this summer who’ll be happy to be seen toting around a volume which will mark them out as The Children of Hype.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle1732466.ece