Tolkien’s The Children of Hurin Released Today
April 17th, 2007 by Brian
He’s been dead for 30 years but JRR Tolkien is still writing books.
The Children of Hurin tells the tragic and dark tale of a family cursed by Morgoth, the first dark lord (he makes Sauron look like Santa Claus.)
I’ll put a full review up as soon as I finish reading it (even though I’ve already read most of it in The Silmarillion. That’s how I know it’s dark and tragic.)
Also, there’s a dragon in it and he’s meaner than Smaug.
I will have to read this book as I thought, the Silmarillion was better than Lord of the Rings. I am a huge Tolkien fan, I am suprised this book got by me, oh well, thanks for the heads up.
So far it’s better than the sum of the parts that were in The Silmarillion. I keep encountering parts of the narrative that I don’t recall ever reading before.