# New book coming with more of Tolkien's unpublished ME writings in it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** middle-earth, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364 "2020-06-23T13:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/1 "2020-06-23T13:21:10Z")
Info here: [The Nature of Middle Earth](https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/06/23/108207-the-nature-of-middle-earth-new-book-with-tolkiens-unpublished-writings/) Woo Hoo! About time that HOMES got another volume! I am looking forward to it, but I am an extreme geek, so YMMV ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/2 "2020-06-23T13:25:06Z")
I will have to buy and read it of course. There is no option. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/3 "2020-06-23T13:25:20Z")
Definitely picking that one up! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/4 "2020-06-23T13:29:40Z")
I will have to buy it, too. But I suspect that if it hasn’t been published yet, there’s a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/5 "2020-06-23T13:29:54Z")
At this point, I’m at a loss as to what could possibly still be unpublished. Something scribbled on a dirty napkin? A note he passed to a classmate in 6th grade? His grocery list from March 2, 1953? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/6 "2020-06-23T14:15:07Z")
I want to see Turin’s grocery list. And Luthien’s laundry list. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/7 "2020-09-30T15:49:10Z")
Looks like the book will be **Released** May 27, 2021 ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/8 "2020-09-30T20:04:50Z")
Yet more erased writings on blue exam papers. It might be interesting but … ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/9 "2020-09-30T20:13:10Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I will have to buy it, too. But I suspect that if it hasn’t been published yet, there’s a reason. That’s my suspicion. I feel this is the stuff that nobody, including Tolkien himself, thought was worth publishing. And Tolkien’s estate didn’t think was worth including in previous collections of unpublished background material. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-coming-with-more-of-tolkiens-unpublished-me-writings-in-it/912364/10 "2020-09-30T20:18:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s my suspicion. I feel this is the stuff that nobody, including Tolkien himself, thought was worth publishing. And Tolkien’s estate didn’t think was worth including in previous collections of unpublished background material. Yeah, but there’s some real flakes of gold not to mention occasional nuggets of it, in that material. Or so it seems to me, after having read the entire HOME series, and the two volume Hobbit drafts and analyses.