Many happy returns, Child!
I will presume that amazon will deliver on time so I will get my copy on the 17th. Once it arrives, I will look at all the pretty pictures, and see what Christopher does with the ending, which is really what I'm most interested in. Does Hurin die in despair, or not? Does he return to Doriath, or not? Or will it just end with the death of Turin?
Then I am ashamed to admit, I will put on my glad rags for a most interesting yet entirely non-Tolkienesque evening out - a reunion of a now-defunct organisation I once worked for. The questions I will be seeking answers to are rather more frivolous than my literary agonies over the Narn. Will I have aged better than my former colleagues? Will the cute men still look cute? Who has turned to drink, who has run to fat, who has made a roaring success of their subsequent careers?
Oh I am so shallow.
