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The Children of Húrin

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Dec 03, 2010 Jason Koivu rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

Don't ask me to name any of the many gods, demons, peoples, and monsters that populated Tolkien's history book of his own fantasy world making. It's confusing and a second read will be necessary, but what I enjoyed were the tales. Following the heroic legends is like listening to a fireside tale told by a grandfather or an intriguing talk by a professor prone to long-windedness. You know it's good stuff and you wish you could stay awake during the endless narrative/lecture, but the old man will ...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Derek rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: high-fantasy

Much more approachable than I expected. It splits the difference between the biblical, epic, dense Silmarillion and the more conventional The Lord of the Rings, producing something with the style of a readable Beowulf translation. The dialog is more formal or courtly than archaic or ornate in structure and I did not find it burdensome.

This is a tale, and a world, of costly victories and devastating defeats, a telling of Camelot, squared. Morgoth casts a long shadow, and it is never clear how muc ...more

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Aug 11, 2010 Curt Lorde rated it really liked it

The dark ending of a heroic saga. Not every hero or heroine lives to an exalted old age ala Aragorn. Hubris destroyed plenty- Roland at the pass of Roncevalles, Hercules and his fatal tunic, Bellerophon and his fatal flight to Olympus, Sumunguru and the hammer of treacherous magic. When an Evil One marks the captured hero Hurin's children to an ill fate, there seems to be no escaping. Or is there. That at least to me seems the
spine of the story of Turin. Is he truly cursed by the fallen god Mor ...more

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