If the Children of Húrin was filmed...

[davem]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli

Negative. CT has no control over book covers, except to the extent HC and HM might consult him as a courtesy. He opposed film tie-in covers, but was overruled.

I didn't know that he'd been consulted -....interesting. I am aware that CT/The Estate issued a statement that they should make it cleat that they had nothing to do with the movies - which I interpret simply as him wanting clear demarcation lines between the books & the movies- but not that CT had actually opposed movie related book covers.

Certainly, the fact that CT has chosen Harper Collins as publishers of CoH, & that he has chosen to work with Alan Lee as the artist, implies that his working relationship with his publishers is fine.

Also, given the choice of Alan Lee as artist one has to wonder how 'anti-' the movies CT actually is. When I saw the first painting from CoH to be released & saw the detail of the building on the cliff wall, about a third of the way up, I was strongly reminded of the architecture of Rivendell in the movie. I expect the style of the paintings to be very strongly reminiscent of the movies. I'm sure that if CT was as strongly oposed to the movies as is claimed by some Lee's work would not have appeared in the new work