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Today's featured article File:The Children of Hurin cover.jpg The Children of Húrin - Announced in 2006, the launch of this book marks a historic moment, not only the first work published by Christopher Tolkien in many years, but most likely the last. Stay tuned on April 17th for full details on the book including summaries and analysis' of the chapters as well as reviews and plenty more. Past Featured Articles Collaborations The improvement drive article for this week is: Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Let's try and improve this article to a higher standard. Past Collaborations On this day... 1899 - Nevill Coghill, Inkling, is born. 1917 - J.R.R. Tolkien, in revalidation, is assigned to the Humber Garrison, but is not fit enough. 1966 - Rayner Unwin writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien. 1972 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Eva Heilborn. 1981 - The seventh episode of the 1981 radio series of The Lord of the Rings is aired on BBC Radio 4. 1995 - Actor Patrick Gibson is born. 2009 - The first e-Book editions of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Children of Húrin are published. 2012 - Tolkien in East Yorkshire 1917 - 1918 is published. In Arda There are no known events for this day.

In the news Under construction Featured Quote "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." ― The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party Past Featured quotes Users online <whosonline></whosonline>

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