Unfinished Tolkien Work The Children of Hurin To Be Published In Spring 2007

J.R.R. Tolkien'a son Christopher Tolkien has edited an unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday.

Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on "The Children of Hurin," an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of "The Children of Hurin," which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and other works, have been published before.