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Early J.R.R. Tolkien work to be published

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2015 might be the year of throwback author comebacks.

Just last month, Harper Lee release her novel “Go Set a Watchman” – originally written in the 1950s and her first novel in half a century –  and publishing companies released Dr. Seuss’ “What Pet Should I Get?” – posthumously after early writings were discovered.

Now, it seems famed “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien will join the comeback train. According to CNN, an unfinished manuscript that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth will be published in late August in the United Kingdom and late October in the United States.

Entitled “The Story of Kullervo,” the book is based on a character in the Finnish poem "The Kalevala,” and written during his time at Oxford University's Exeter College in 1914.

CNN reports Tolkien said the unfinished manuscript was "the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own" and was "a major matter in the legends of the First Age.”

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