2008-03-12

The Tolkien Line Continues

This came from yesterday's Publisher's Lunch:
JRR Tolkien's grandson Simon Tolkien's THE INHERITANCE, in which an aging police inspector decides to travel from England to France to delve into a possible World War II theft and crime hoping to save an upper-class student set to hang for murdering his father, an Oxford historian with a questionable military record, to Peter Wolverton and Thomas Dunne at Thomas Dunne Books, in a two-book deal, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).


I wonder if this is the same guy who went to Peter Jackson when they were filming some of the last scenes of The Return of the King - and received a bit part in that film (I mean, how could they say NO to someone with the last name of Tolkien?).

Of course it has Oxford in the mix, considering that's where Professor Tolkien did his, um, professoring. :-)

Actually sounds quite interesting. I hope he can deliver the goods!

~Nancy Beck

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